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MAIN    HALL. 


AN    HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

OF      THE 


ILLiNOIS  WESLEYAN   UNIVERSITY. 


TOGETHER      WITH      A 


RECORD    OF    THE    ALUMNI. 


1857-1895. 


ViLLiAH  ti.  Wilder,  Editor. 


THE     UNIVERSITY    PRESS. 

BLOOMINGTON.    ILL. 
1895. 


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Preface. 


In  the  annual  catalogue  published  in  April.  1894,  it  was  stated  that 
during  the  summer  months  a  complete  Alumni  Record  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University  would  be  published.  The  plan  and  scope  of  the 
publication  has  been  enlarged  to  an  illustrated  historical  sketch  of  the 
organization  and  a  record  of  its  alumni.  To  make  the  publication  of 
interest  and  of  permanent  value,  extended  correspondence,  great 
patience,  and  an  amount  of  labor  astonishing  to  the  uninitiated  were  nec- 
essary. The  summer  vacation  passed  before  the  materials  were  all 
gathered.  With  other  duties  it  was  impossible  to  prosecute  the  work 
during  the  collegiate  year;  hence  the  delay,  which  is  perhaps  justified  by 
the  wider  scope  and  more  extended  information  furnished.  Much  credit 
is  due  Prof.  M.  P.  Lackland,  who  has  materially  aided  in  securing  infor- 
mation from  the  alumni. 

The  object  of  the  book  is  manifold  : 

To  put  essential  data  relating  to  the  birth  and  evolution  of  the  Uni- 
versity in  permanent  form  while  many  of  the  chief  actors  are  yet  living  to 
verify  the  record.  Forty-two  years  have  now  passed  since  the  first 
charter  was  granted,  and  in  a  short  time  it  would  be  impossible  to  secure 
the  most  reliable  data  concerning  some  of  the  most  potent  influences 
which  have  contributed  to  the  founding  and  endowment  of  the  institution. 

To  furnish  the  alumni,  now  found  in  the  various  professions  and  vo- 
cations in  almost  every  country  in  the  world,  knowledge  of  their  Alma 
Mater  and  growing  brotherhood,  and  thereby  foster  a  filial  and  fraternal 
spirit. 

To  answer  the  legitimate  demands  for  information  concerning  the 
men  and  women  who  have  completed  its  courses  of  study  and  taken 
its  degrees.  As  a  tree  is  known  by  its  fruit,  so  educational  institutions 
are  known.  The  reader  may  herein  find  data  for  a  rational  idea  of  the 
character  and  value  of  the  products  of  the  institution.  He  should  bear 
in  mind,  however,  that  values  are  to  be  found  in  qualities  rather  than 
in  quantities. 

To  interest  others  in  the  institution  in  order  that  the  demands  now 


upon  it  may  be  fully  met  and  its  sphere  of  usefulness  enlarged.  Investi- 
gation will  show  that  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  has  all  the  condi- 
tions to  warrant  largest  gifts  for  buildings,  scholarships  and  endowments. 
Its  record  is  a  most  honorable  one.  It  has  kept  within  its  means,  and 
at  the  same  time  held  to  a  high  standard  of  scholarship.  It  is  most 
favorably  situated  in  the  geographical  center  of  Illinois  and  of  its  patron- 
izing conferences,  the  Central  and  the  Illinois,  in  which  are  ninety-two 
thousand,  one  hundred  forty-two  communicants  of  the  church  which 
controls  its  property.  It  has,  therefore,  a  large  and  devoted  constitu- 
ency, which  is  also  becoming  wealthy,  to  perpetually  advance  its  interests. 
This  fact  alone  is  a  guaranty  that  the  funds  of  the  university  will  be 
conscientiously  and  economically  used.  Its  experimental  laboratories 
are  equal  to  the  largest  demands  of  to-day.  Its  buildings  are  good, 
though  inadequate  to  furnish  accommodations  for  resident  students  nov/ 
in  the  department  of  Letters.  Its  outstanding  obligations  are  insignifi- 
cant. Its  interest  bearing  endowment  is  small,  but  constantly  increas- 
ing, while  its  prospective  endowment  has  rapidly  increased  within  the 
last  few  years.  Its  most  urgent  demands  to-day  are  for  a  new  science 
hall,  a  new  hall  for  a  ladies'  home,  and  a  larger  endowment.  Never  was 
the  outlook  for  the  growth  of  the  institution  so  bright  as  at  this  hour. 
The  attendance  in  the  various  colleges  has  steadily  increased  during  the 
seven  years  past,  one  thousand,  six  hundred  twenty-five  students  having 
been  catalogued  for  the  year  1894-95. 

We  send  the  book  on  its  mission  hoping  that  it  may  receive  chari- 
table consideration  and  some  favor  among  the  thousands  of  persons  who 
have  received  instruction  in  the  halls  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University, 
and  of  others  who  have  contributed  to  its  success. 


September  4. 
1895. 


Object  of  the  Founders. 


"The  object  of  this  institution  shall  be  to  provide  a  ryistem  of  educa'ion 
adapted  to  the  wants  of  the  country,  and  based  upon  the  system  of  religion  and 
morality  revealed  in  the  Scriptures."  Art.  3.  Constitution  of  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
ivrsily.  adopted  December  18.  1850. 

The  object  of  the  founders  of  the  college  was  to  provide  for  the 
highest  education  of  such  youth  as  should  choose  to  come  under  its  in- 
fluence. They  sought  not  for  products  impractical  and  useless,  living 
encyclopedias,  the  result  of  a  system  of  education  whose  end  is  informa- 
tion and  whose  method  is  simply  the  communication  of  positive  knowl- 
edge ;  nor  for  those  products  of  the  schools  who  are  mere  instruments 
for  other  men.  incapable  of  independent  thought  or  action,  the  results  of 
a  system  whose  end  is  ••the practical"  affairs  of  life;  they  sought  rather 
the  products  of  a  system  whose  end  is  the  harmonious  development  of 
the  individual  being  in  its  entirety.  Since  "the  finest  fruit  the  earth 
holds  up  to  its  Maker  is  a  finished  man,"  character  was  the  end  in  view. 
"  Learning  is  like  mercury,  one  of  the  most  powerful  and  excellent  things 
in  the  world  in  skillful  hands;   in  unskillful,  the  most  mischievous." 

Though  the  state  has  made  provision  for  higher  education  for  a 
portion  of  its  youth,  the  duty  of  the  Christian  people  to  found  and  richly 
endow  such  colleges  for  the  highest  education  is  not  less,  but  rather 
greater,  because  of  that  fact.  It  is  here  contended  that  the  state  has 
not  yet  undertaken  to  furnish  the  highest  education,  and,  from  the  nature 
of  education  and  the  constitutions  under  which  it  operates,  it  may  never 


assume  such  prerogative.  The  highest  is  not  reached  in  perfect  physi- 
cal and  intellectual  development,  since  the  ethical  and  religious  sides  of 
man's  nature  lie  as  certainly  in  the  field  of  education  as  do  the  physical 
and  the  intellectual.  The  system  that  finds  no  place  for  the  ethical  and 
religious  even  in  ••the  practical"  is  partial  or  imperfect,  and,  by  so  much, 
is  unscientific.  The  highest  and  the  best  things  even  for  ••the  practical," 
purity  of  thought  and  righteousness  of  life,  are  not  furnished  in  secu- 
larism or  pure  intellectualism. 

The  highest  education  must  meet  the  postulates  of  man's  ethical 
and  religious  nature  as  perfectly  as  those  of  his  intellectual.  This  ne- 
cessitates the  consideration  of  the  nature  of  the  Ground  of  the  universe ; 
its  claims  upon  man;  man's  nature;  and  his  relation  to  the  Ground  of 
the  universe.  The  only  foundation  for  ethics  is  the  trinity  of  beliefs, 
God,  freedom  and  immortality.  All  the  assurances  from  skepticism  that 
we  may  deny  God,  freedom  and  immortality,  and  yet  save  morality  and 
religion  to  human  society  are  groundless.  Any  so  called  system  of  ethics 
without  God  as  the  fundamental  reality  is  as  baseless  as  a  science  of 
psychology  without  a  soul.  Morals  as  certainly  depend  upon  God  as 
reason  depends  upon  God.  A  being  immutable  in  nature  is  the  only 
adequate  foundation  for  moral  law.  Conscience  is  not  illusive,  and  its 
authority  is  absolute.  To  deny  belief  in  God  and  immortality  is  to  leave 
ethics   without   a   rational  ground,  while  to  prate  about  the  ethical   in 


ILLINOIS  WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 


nature  and  deny  the  authority  of  conscience  is  merest  prattle.  The 
phenomena  of  the  moral  and  religious  consciousness  cannot  be  ignored 
in  a  system  of  complete  education. 

The  air  of  the  school  of  highest  instruction  should  not  be  purely 
secular;  its  ideal  should  be  the  ideal  of  perfect  manhood  after  the  mode 
of  Jesus  of  Nazareth.  Instruction  in  science,  in  letters,  in  history  and 
in  philosophy  should  be  given  from  the  standpoint  of  the  fundamental 
ideas  of  the  Christian  religion.  The  duty  of  the  church  to  establish 
and  richly  endow  institutions  of  highest  grade  is  imperative  to  save  sci- 
entific thought  from  materialism,  philosophy  from  skepticism,  and  moral- 
ity to  the  world.  The  insidious  persuasive  influences  of  materialism 
have  already  provoked  even  public-school  men  to  send  forth  strong  and 
brave  apologies  for  spirituality.  The  trend  of  materialism  must  be 
strong  to  evoke  such  voices  in  contending  that  there  is  a  spirit  in  man. 


How  much  more  should  the  organizations  of  Christian  people  whose 
faith  made  the  republic  possible  be  awake;  for  it  is  only  through  them 
that  philosophy  with  God  as  its  postulate,  science  with  God  as  its  con- 
clusion, and  culture  with  religion  as  its  culmination,  will  underlie  our 
thinking,  permeate  our  teaching  and  guide  our  living.  In  the  language 
of  Hon.  W.  E.  Gladstone.  "It  is  supremacy,  not  precedence,  that  we 
ask  for  the  Bible;  it  is  contrast,  as  well  as  resemblance,  that  we  must 
feel  compelled  to  insist  on.  The  Bible  is  stamped  with  specialty 
of  origin,  and  an  immeasurable  distance  separates  it  from  all  com- 
petitors." 

While  the  university  was  placed  under  the  control  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  it  was  intended  that  it  should  be  positively  and 
broadly  Christian  rather  than  purely  secular  or  sectarian.  Such  has 
been  and  is  its  character. 


History  of  tme  Corporation. 


[Prepared  in  part  by  Judge  Owen  T. 

As  early  as  1849  some  of  the  public  spirited  citizens  of  central  Illi- 
nois began  the  agitation  of  establishing  a  college  at  Bloomington.  The 
first  record  of  such  agitation  found  by  the  compiler  is  in  the  minutes  of 
the  Illinois  conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  for  the  year 
ending  September.  1849.  It  is  simply  a  record  that  Rev.  John  S.  Bar- 
ger  and  Rev.  Thos.  A.  McGee  were  appointed  a  committee  to  confer 
with  the  citizens  of  Bloomington.  Illinois,  on  the  subject  of  a  seminary 
of  learning  at  that  place. 

It  is  impossible  to  identify  the  first  meeting  held  with  a  view  to  the 
organization  of  the  university,  but  a  meeting  was  held  in  Bloomington, 
December  2,  1850,  at  which  the  committee  appointed  by  the  Confer- 
ence was  doubtless  present,  and  another  in  the  same  place  December  1  1 , 
1850,  at  which  time  the  organization  was  completed.  The  Constitution 
was  adopted  December  18,  1850.  The  minutes  of  the  Illinois  confer- 
ence for  1850  show  that  Peter  Cartwright,  D.  D..  John  S.  Barger, 
W.  D.  R.  Trotter,  A.  M.,  J.  C.  Rucker  and  V/.  J.  Newman  were  ap- 
pointed by  the  conference  as  a  committee  to  visit  the  Illinois  University 
at  Bloomington. 

The  Illinois  conference  com.mittee  on  education  of  that  year  re- 
ported on  the  Preparatory  Department  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity. Rev.  Reuben  Andrus,  Principal.     This  report  declares  that  ••  no 


Reeves,  Deain  of  Law  School.] 

people  are  better  furnished  with  good  literary  institutions  than  those  in 
Illinois,  and  none  are  better  able  to  educate  their  children;  our  duties 
and  interests  both  prompt  to  the  improvement  of  our  opportunities." 

At  that  time  the  Methodists  of  Illinois  Conference  had  organized 
Illinois  Female  College  at  Jacksonville,  seminaries  at  Georgetown  and 
at  Paris,  Waynesville  Academy  at  Waynesville,  and  very  soon  after- 
wards started  seminaries  at  Danville,  Marshall  and  Quincy. 

The  system  of  seminary  schools  had  been  a  necessity  because  of 
the  want  of  public  schools,  but  upon  the  development  of  the  public 
school  system  of  the  state,  it  became  the  policy  of  the  church  to  estab- 
lish colleges.  That  they  were  fully  awake  to  their  responsibility  and 
duties  is  indicated  from  their  published  reports. 

A  paragraph  taken  from  the  report  on  education  to  the  conference 
held  at  Springfield  in  1854  is  of  interest: 

"The  Methodist  Church,  in  the  west  and  south-west,  stands  in  a 
position  of  incalculable  responsiblity  to  the  great  wave  of  population 
overspreading  the  valley  of  the  Mississippi.  Destiny  seems  to  point  out 
this  valley  as  the  depository  of  the  great  heart  of  the  nation.  From 
this  center  mighty  pulsations,  for  good  or  evil,  must  in  future  flow, 
which  shall  not  only  .affect  the  fortunes  of  the  republic,  but  reach  in 
their  influence,  other  and  distant  nations  of  the  earth.     The  advances 


ILLINOIS  WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 


herein  reported  which  are  being  made  by  the  Methodists  on  the  subject 
of  education  in  the  bounds  of  the  IIHnois  Conference,  flatter  the  idea 
that,  in  so  far  as  our  section  of  the  church  is  concerned  and  especially 
the  division  of  it  embraced  in  the  Illinois  Conference,  cheering  success 
will  attend  our  future  efforts  to  contribute  our  share  towards  the  general 
education  of  the  great  masses.  In  addition  to  all  other  motives  con- 
spiring to  lead  us  forward  in  this  noble  work,  patriotism  or  the  love  of 
country  is  not  the  least.  The  nature  of  our  constitutions  and  laws  de- 
mands it.  The  tenure  and  price  of  our  liberties  are  involved  in  it.  The 
sovereignty  invested  in  the  whole  people  imperiously  requires  it;  and 
recent  events,  as  they  have  been  connected  with  the  civil  questions 
which  have  agitated  the  nation,  some  of  which  questions  have  sprung 
from  the  tide  of  foreign  emigration  setting  in  upon  American  soil,  call 
loudly  for  the  work  of  education  to  go  forward — the  education  of  nothing 
less  than  the  whole  American  mind:  an  education,  too,  that  shall  be 
American  in  all  its  essential  principles."  Illinois  Conference  Minutes, 
1854. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  trustees  in  July,  1851.  Rev.  William 
Goodfellow  and  Rev.  Reuben  Andrus  were  elected  professors,  and  Rev. 
Erastus  Wentworth  was  elected  president.  Dr.  Wentworth  did  not 
accept,  but  Goodfellow  and  Andrus  conducted  the  school,  beginning  in 
September.  1851. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  July,  1852.  Rev.  John  Dempster  was 
elected  president  of  the  university,  and  while  his  name  remained  as 
president  for  two  years,  he  never  performed  any  of  the  duties  of  the 
office,  the  presidency  of  Garrett  Biblical  Institute  having  been  tendered 
him.  which  he  accepted.  At  the  same  meeting.  Goodfellow  was  elected 
professor  for  another  year,  but  Andrus  declined  a  re-election.  Rev. 
C.  W.  Sears  was  elected  to  a  professorship  at  this  time,  and  he  and  the 


Rev.  Mr.  Goodfellow  conducted  the  school  the  next  year,  with  Mr.  J.  W. 
Sheefy  as  principal  of  the  primary  department. 

At  the  session  of  the  legislature  held  in  January  and  February. 

1853.  the  university  received  a  special  charter,  which  vested  the  owner- 
ship and  control  of  the  institution  in  the  Illinois  Annual  Conference  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church — its  first  organization  being  under  the 
general  incorporation  statute. 

Soon  after  the  organization  of  the  first  Board  of  Trustees,  the 
question  of  a  site  for  the  university  buildings  began  to  be  discussed,  and 
after  a  number  of  proposals  had  been  made,  a  ten-acre  lot  lying  north 
of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  was  chosen,  and  a  deed  received  for 
the  same  from  James  Allin.  Later,  but  not  until  a  contract  had  been 
let  for  a  building  and  the  materials  for  the  same  had  been  collected  on 
the  ground,  the  location  proved  so  unsatisfactory  that  proposals  were  in- 
vited for  another  site,  and  on  the  24th  day  of  June.  1854,  the  present 
site  was  selected ;  the  building  material  collected  on  the  Ailin  lot  was 
removed  to  the  present  site,  and  the  present  preparatory  building  was 
erected.  At  the  close  of  the  school  year  in  June.  1854.  Prof.  Sears  re- 
tired, and  the  school  was  continued  under  Prof.  Goodfellow.  with  Mr. 
Lyman  Shaffer  as  assistant,  until  the  close  of  the  fall  term  December  12. 

1854.  when  the  school  work  was  suspended.  About  this  time  the  trus- 
tees elected  Rev.  Peter  Akers.  D.  D..  to  the  presidency  of  the  univer- 
sity, but  he  never  accepted  the  office.  Dr.  Akers  declined  because  an 
endowment  of  $15,000  was  not  raised  to  endow  the  President's  chair. 
In  August,  1855,  Rev.  C.  W.  Sears  was  elected  president,  and  under 
his  management  the  school  was  again  opened  October  1.  1855.  and  was 
continued  to  July.  1856.  when  President  Sears  resigned  and  the  trustees 
decided  to  suspend  the  school  until  a  sufficient  sum  could  be  raised  to 
pay  the  indebtedness  which  they  had  already  incurred. 


iMCOKPORATIOrS. 


AN    ACT   ENTITLED    AN    ACT    INCORPORATING    ILLINOIS    WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY. 


Section 


Incorpo- 
rators. 


Name  and 
Style. 


Number  of 
Tniatees. 


Section 
Objects. 
Section 


Visiting 
Com- 
mittee. 


I.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  Stale  of  lllincis.  represented  in 
the  General  Assembly,  that  James  Allin.  J.  E.  McClun.  Linus  Graves. 
Thomas  O.  Rogers.  H.  H.  Fell.  Ezekial  Thomas.  W.  H.  Allin.  Isaac 
Funk.  John  Moon.  Jesse  W.  Fell.  C.  D.  James  5ilas  Waters.  C.  P. 
Merriman.  David  Trimmer.  John  Magoun.  James  Miller.  John  W. 
Ewing.  Jesse  Birch.  A.  Goddard.  W.  C.  Hobbs.  David  Davis.  Peter 
Cartwright.  John  S.  Barger  and  Henry  Coleman,  and  their  successors. 
be  and  are  hereby  created  a  body  corporate  and  politic,  by  the  name 
and  style  of  '-The  Trustees  of  the  Wesleyan  University."  and  ty  that 
style  and  name  to  remain  and  have  perpetual  succession.  The  univer- 
sity shall  remain  at  or  near  the  city  of  Eloomington.  in  the  county  of 
McLean,  and  the  number  of  trustees  shall  not  exceed  twenty-four  (24). 
exclusive  of  the  president,  principal  or  presiding  officer  of  the  college. 
who  shall  be.  ex  officio,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees:  Provided. 
however,  that  no  other  professor  or  instructor  shall  be  a  member  of 
said  board.  For  the  present  the  aforesaid  individuals  shall  constitute  the 
Board  of  Trustees. 

n.  The  object  of  said  corporation  shall  be  the  promotion  of  the  gen- 
eral interest  of  education,  and  to  qualify  young  men  to  engage  in  the 
several  employments  and  professions  of  society,  and  to  discharge  hon- 
orably and  usefully  the  various  duties  of  life. 

III.  Said  university  shall  be  under  the  patronage  of  the  lllincis  Annual 
Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  which  shall  have  the 
privilege  of  annually  appointing  a  visiting  committee  consisting  of 
seven,  who  shall  have  a  seat  with  the  Board  of  Trustees  in  the  transac- 
tions of  business.  And  any  other  annual  conference  that  shall  unite  in 
the  patronage  of  said  institution  shall  have  the  same  privilege ;  Provided 
the  whole  number  of  visitors  so  appointed  shall  not  exceed  twelve  :  and 


Term  of 
Office. 


provided,  also,  there  shall  be  a  quorum  of  the  regular  trustees  exclusive 
of  said  visiting  committee  or  committees,  as  the  ca3e  may  be.  in  all 
meetings  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Sectio.n  IV.  Said  trustees,  a*  their  first  meeti.ng,  as  provided  for  in  the  14th  sec- 
tion of  this  act.  shall,  by  lot.  divide  themselves  into  three  classes  of 
eight  trustees  each,  and  the  the  term  of  office  for  the  first,  second  and 
third  classes  shall  be  one,  two  and  three  years,  respectively,  after  the 
day  of  such  classification. 

At  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  office  of  any  of  said  classes,  the  re- 
maining trustees  then  in  office,  or  a  majority  of  them,  shall  elect 
trustees  equal  in  number  to  the  outgoing  trustees,  and  who  shall  hold 
their  office  for  three  years  from  and  after  their  election,  and  until  their 
successors  shall  be  elected  and  qualified;  Provided,  always,  that  any 
person  or  persons  who  may  have  been  or  shall  be  a  trustee  of  said  in- 
stitution shall  be  eligible  to  election  if  any  vacancy  shall  occur  in  said 
Board  of  Trustees,  ty  removal  or  death  or  refusal  to  act  or  resignation, 
said  trustees  shall  have  power,  at  any  regular  meeting,  of  filling  said 
vacancy  by  electing  a  person  or  persons  to  serve  out  the  unexpired 
term  or  terms,  as  the  case  may  be. 
Section  V.  The  corporate  powers  hereby  bestowed  shall  be  such  only  as  shall 
be  essential  or  useful  in  the  attainment  of  the  object  hereinbefore  speci- 
fied, and  such  as  are  usually  conferred  on  bodies  corporate,  to-wit,  to 
have  perpetual  succe.ssion,  to  make  contracts,  to  sue  and  to  be  sued,  to 
plead  and  to  be  impleaded,  to  grant  and  receive  by  its  corporate  name, 
and  to  do  all  other  acts  a.s  natural  persons  may;  to  accept  and  acquire. 

Corporate    in  all  lawful  ways  to  use,  employ,  manage  and  dispose  of  such  property. 

Powers.     ^^^  ^11  moneys  belonging  to  said  corporation,  in  such  manner  as  shall 

seem  to  the  trustees  best  adapted  to  promote  the  objects  aforesaid;  to 


PlOvisO. 


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have  a  common  seal,  and  to  alter  or  change  the  same,  and  to  make 
such  by-laws  as  are  not  inconsistent  with  the  constitution  and  laws  of 
the  United  States  and  this  state,  and  to  confer  on  such  persons  as  may 
be  considered  worthy  such  academical  or  honoraiy  degrees  as  are  usual- 
ly conferred  by  similar  institutions. 
Section  VI.  The  trustees  of  said  unisersity  shall  have  authority  from  time  to 
time  to  prescribe  and  regulate  the  course  of  studies  to  be  pursued  in 
said  university,  and  in  the  preparatory  department  attached  thereto ;  to 
fix  the  rate  of  tuition,  room  rent  and  other  necessary  expense:  to  ap- 
point instructors  and  such  other  officers  and  agents  as  may  be  needed 
in  the  management  of  the  concerns  of  the  institution,  to  define  their 
powers,  duties  and  employments,  to  fix  their  compensation,  to  displace 
or  remove  either  of  the  instructors,  officers  and  agents,  or  all  of  them. 

.    ,  as  said  trustees  shall  deem  the  interest  of  said  University  requires,  to 

Authority  ■'        ^ 

of        fill  all  vacancies  among  said  instructors,  officers  and   agents,  to  erect 

rus  ees.  ng^gs^ai-y  buildings,  to  purchase  books,  chemical  and  philosophical 
apparatus,  and  other  suitable  means  of  instruction,  to  put  in  operation 
if  deemed  advisable  a  system  of  manual  labor  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
moting the  health  of  the  students  and  lessening  the  expenses  of  educa- 
tion, to  make  rules  for  general  management  of  the  affairs  of  the 
institution,  and  for  the  regulation  and  conduct  of  the  students,  and  to 
add  as  the  ability  of  the  corporation  may  justify,  and  the  interest  of  the 
community  shall  require,  additional  departments  for  the  study  of  the 
sciences,  as  applied  to  agriculture  and  the  arts,  or  of  any  or  all  of 
the  liberal  professions. 

Section  Vll.  If  any  trustee  shall  be  chosen  president  of  the  university  his 
former  place  as  trustee  shall  be  considered  vacant  and  his  place  filled 
by  the  remaining  trustees  for  the  time  being:  shall  have  power  to  re- 
move any  trustee  from  office  for  any  dishonorable  or  criminal  conduct; 

Q„.         provided  that  no  such  removal  shall  take  place  without  giving  to  such 

Vacated    trustee  notice  of    the    charges  exhibited  against  him.   and  an  oppor- 

and       tunity  offered  him  to  defend  himself  before  the  board,  nor  unless  two- 

D  1   thirds  of  the  whole  number  of  trustees  for  the  time  beinp  shall  concur 

Removal.  ° 

in  such  removal.  The  trustees  for  the  time  being,  in  order  to  have 
perpetual  succession,  shall  have  power,  as  often  as  a  trustee  shall  be 
removed  from   office,  die.  resign,  refuse  to  act  or  remove  out  of  the 


state,  to  appoint  a  resident  of  this  state  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  Board 
of  Trustees  occasioned  by  such  removal  from  office,  death,  refusal  to 
act.  resignation  or  removal  from  the  state. 
Section  VIll.  The  trustees  shall  faithfully  apply  all  funds  collected  by  them, 
according  to  the  best  of  their  judgment,  in  erecting  suitable  buildings. 
in  supporting  the  necessary  instructors,  officers  and  agents,  in  procur- 
ing maps,  charts,  globes,  philosophical,  chemical  and  other  apparatus 
necessary  to  aid  in  the  promotion  of  sound  learning  in  the  institution: 
provided  that  in  case  any  donation,  devise  or  bequest,  shall  be  made 


Funds- 
How 


for  particular  purposes  accordant  with    the    object    of  the    institution. 

Applied,    and  the  trustees  shall  accept  the  same,  every  such  donation,  devise  ^r 

bequest  shall  be  applied  in  conformity  with  the  express  condition  of  the 

donors  or  devisors:   Provided,  also,  that  lands  so  donated  or  devised 

shall  be  sold  or   disposed  of  as  required  by  the  eleventh  section   of 

this  act. 

Section  IX.     The  treasurer  of  said   university   always,   and  all   other  agents 

when  required  by  the  trustees,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  their 

appointments  shall  give  bond  respectively  for  the  security  of  the  corpo- 

T  ration,  in  such  penal  sum.  and  with  such  securities  as  the  Board  of 

Treasurer  ^ 

Etc.       Trustees  shall  approve :  and  all  process  against  such  corporation  shall 

Bond,     be  by  summons,  and  the  service  of  the  same  shall  be  by  leaving  an 

attested  copy  with  the  treasurer  of  the  college  at  least  thirty  days  before 

the  return  day  thereof. 

Section  X.     The  said  university  and  its  preparatory  department  shall  be  open 

Ocen  to    *°  ^"  denominations  of  Christians,  and  the  profession  of  any  particular 

All  De-    religious  faith  shall  not  be  required  of  those  who  become  students.    All 

lions!"     persons,  however,  may  be  suspended  or  expelled  from  said  institution 

whose  habits  are  idle  or  vicious,  or  whose  moral  character  is  bad. 

Section  XI,     The  lands,  tenements  and  hereditaments  to  be  held  in  perpetuity 

by  virtue  of  this  act  by  said  institution,  shall  not  exceed  six  hundred 

and  forty  acres:    provided,   however,  that  if  the  donations,  grants  or 

devises   in    land  shall  from  time  to  time  be  made  to  said  corporation 

over  and   above  said  six  hundred  and  forty  acres  which  may  be  held 

o     .  P  _  in  perpetuity,  the  same  may  be  received  and  held  by  said  corporation 

tate        for  the  period  of  ten  years  from  the  date  of  every  such  donation,  grant 

tions.      or  devise,  at  the  end  of  which  time,  if  the  said  lands  over  and  above 


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Quorum. 


the  six  hundred  and  forty  acres  shall  not  have  teen  sold,  then  and  in 
that  case  the  said  lands  so  donated  granted  or  devised  shall  revert  to 
the  donor,  grantor  or  the  heirs  of  the  devisor  of  the  same. 
Section  XIl.     Eight  trustees  shall  be  sufficient  to  constitute  a  quorum  for  the 
transaction  of  business,  and  should  there  be  at  any  time  an  insufficient 
number  for  a  quorum  they  shall  have  power  to  adjourn  from  day  to 
day.  or  for  any  longer  period,  until  a  quorum  shall  be  bad.     It  shall  be 
lawful  for  the  president  of  the  Board,  any  three  of  the  trustees,  or  a 
majority  of  the  professors  of  the  the  institution  for  the  time  being,  to 
call  at  any  time  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  whenever  he  or 
they,  as  the  case  may  be.  may  deem  it  expedient,  by  giving  at  least 
three  days"  notice  of  such  meeting  by  personal  service  or  by  publication 
in  some  newspaper  published  in  the  county. 
Section  XIII.    The  acts  and  proceedings  of  the  trustees  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University,  heretofore  had  under  the  general  law  authorizing  the  incor- 
poration of  the  institutions  of  learning  be.   and  the  same  are  hereby 
legalized;   and  the  individuals  designated  in  the  first  section  of  this  act 
Acts  Lc-   ^^^  hereby  constituted  the  successors  to  the  board  heretofore  organized 
^alized.    under  said  general  law.  and  are  authorized  and  required  to  take  the  full 
and  entire  management  of  all  things  pertaining  to  the  future  mainte- 
nance and  support  of  said  institution. 
Section  XIV.     The  first  meeting  of  said  trustees  under  this  charter  shall  be 
held  in  Bloomington.  on  the  first  Wednesday  in  March  next,  or  at  any 
time  thereafter  on  a  day  fixed  or  agreed  upon  in  the  manner  pointed 
Meeting.   Out  in  the  preceding  section,  and  all  subsequent  regular  meetings  of 
said  Board  shall  be  held  at  such  stated  periods  as  said  trustees,  in  their 
discretion,  may  from  time  to  time  by  their  by-laws  and  regulations  de- 
termine. 


Section  XV.     This   act  shall  be  deemed  a  public  act.   and  shall  be  in  force 

from  and  after  its  passage. 
Approued  February  12,  1853. 


AN    ACT    TO    AMEND    AN    ACT  ENTITLED   AN  ACT  TO   INCORPORATE  THE  ILLI- 
NOIS   WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY.  APPROVED    FEBRUARY    12.    1853. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  People  of  the  State  of  Illinois  represented  in 
General  Assembly,  that  the  first  section  of  the  act  entitled  An  Act  to  In- 
corporate the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  approved  February  12.1853, 

Body  Cor-  j^g  ^^  amended  that  the  trustees  therein  named  and  their  successors  in 
porate. 

office,  shall  be  a  body  corporate  and  politic  by  the  name  and  style  of 

"The  Trustees  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University." 

Section  II.     Be  it  further  enacted  that  sections  third  and  fourth  of  said  act  be 

so  amended  that  said  university  shall  be  under  the  patronage  of  the 

Election    Illinois  and  Peoria  (now  Central  Illinois)   Annaal  Conferences  of  the 

Trustees   Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  such  other  annual  conferences  of  said 

Confer-    ^^''^''^h  as  shall  hereafter  unite  in  the  patronage  of  said  university ;   and 

ence.      that  the  trustees  of  said  university  shall  hereafter  be  elected  by  said 

Nomina-   conferences  electing  an  equal  number  of  trustees:  and  that  the  joint 

tion  of     visiting  committee  appointed  by  said  conferences  shall  have  the  right 
President.  .  ,  .  ,  ,..,..,  .     ,  .       ,       . 

to  nominate  the  president  of  said  university,  but  no  vote  in  his  election. 

Section  III.     So  much  of  said  act  of  February  12.  1853  as  conflicts  with  this 

act  is  hereby  repealed. 

Section  IV.     This  act  to  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  January  30.  1857. 


ILLINOIS  WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 


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Oliver  5.  Munsell. 

President  of  the   Illinois  Wesleyan 
University.  1857-73. 

The  Rev.  Oliver  Spencer  Munsell. 
A.  M..  D.  D..  son  of  Leander  and  Han- 
nah Munsell.  was  born  in  Miami  county. 
Ohio,  June  8,  1825. 

When  he  was  not  quite  seven  years 
old,  his  parents  removed  to  Paris,  Ed- 
gar county,  Illinois,  where  was  his  home 
until  manhood.  His  education  was 
begun  in  the  old  time  subscription 
school,  for  there,  as  yet,  the  free  school 
had  no  existence.  Later  his  prepara- 
tion for  college  was  made  under  private 
tutors,  and  in  September,  1841,  he  en- 
tered the  sophomore  class  of  Asbury 
University,  Greencastle,  Ind.  Being  in 
poor  health,  he  was  compelled  to  leave 
college  at  the  close  of  the  winter  term 
in  his  senior  year,  but  returned  in  the 
spring  of  1845,  and  was  graduated  with 
honors,  taking  the  degree  of  A.  B. 

Mr.  Munsell  was  of  a  Methodist 
family,  but  a  moralist  in  all  religious 
matters,  and  was  successful  in  resisting 
all  positive  religious  impressions  until 
under  the  personal  influence  and  in- 
struction  of   President    (later    Bishop) 


Simpson,  he  learned  that  the  true  basis  of  morality  was  found  in 


Oliver  S.  Munsell,  President,  1857-1873. 


the  teaching  of  the  Christian  religion, 
and  on  the  first  day  of  February.  1842. 
he  gave  his  heart  to  God.  and  joined  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  His  father 
had  educated  him  specifically  for  the 
profession  of  law,  and  upon  graduation 
at  Asbury,  young  Munsell  at  once  en- 
tered upon  its  study  under  the  tutorship 
of  Mr.  Emerson  who  afterwards  adorned 
a  seat  on  the  Supreme  Bench  of  Illinois, 
and  in  the  autumn  of  1 846  was  admitted 
to  practice  at  the  bar.  Though  admit- 
ted to  practice  he  never  followed  the 
profession,  as  a  revolution  had  taken 
place  in  his  thoughts  and  plans.  In 
September  of  the  same  year  he  was 
licensed  to  preach  and  joined  the  Illi- 
nois conference  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  In  1851  he  was  elected 
Principal  of  the  Danville  Seminary 
which  he  organized  in  the  old  Methodist 
church  in  Danville  and  afterwards  con- 
ducted successfully  in  the  Seminary 
building  until  1854.  when,  on  account 
of  failing  health,  he  resigned  and  sought 
a  less  sedentary  life.  In  the  autumn 
of  1856,  at  the  earnest  solicitation  of 
intimate  friends  in  the  bounds  of  the 
Rock  River  Conference  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the   Rock  River  Conference 


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HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD, 


and  stationed  at  Mt.  Morris,  the  seat  of  the  Rock  River  Seminary,  whose 
large  body  of  students  offered  him  a  genial  field  of  labor,  and  one  which 
so  providentially  aided  to  fit  him  for  what  was  destined  to  be  his  chief 
life  work. 

In  July.  1857.  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University,  which,  after  brave  struggles  for  an  existence,  had  suspended 
operation  in  1856.  He  shared  in  the  belief  that  Methodism  and  Cen- 
tral Illinois  needed  such  an  institution  as  the  one  planned,  and  that 
Bloomington  was  the  proper  place  for  its  location.  The  outlook  at  that 
lime  v/as  not  a  promising  one.  and  a  month  later  the  panic  of  1857  oc- 
curred, which  rendered  the  undertaking  most  difficult. 

The  assets  of  the  institution  consisted  of  ten  acres  of  ground,  beau- 
tifully situated  in  the  north  part  of  the  city  of  Bloomington.  the  walls  of 
a  plain  but  substantial  three  story  brick  building,  and  an  encumbrance  of 
nearly  five  thousand  dollars,  which  was  increased  to  $9,853  by  the  con- 
tract for  the  completion  of  the  building;  a  few  old  notes,  practically 
without  value,  an  uncompleted  scholarship  subscription  for  the  endow- 
ment of  the  President's  chair,  and  an  uncompleted  general  subscription 
conditioned  on  securing  $50,000.  Upon  the  $4,200  indebtedness  the 
trustees  were  paying  twenty-two  per  cent. 

Notwithstanding.  Mr.  Munsell  accepted  the  position,  and  unasked. 
contracted  wiih  the  board  to  conduct  the  school  three  years  at  his  own 
expense,  provided  full  financial  control  and  the  selection  of  teachers 
should  be  vested  in  him.  a  responsibility  afterward  shared  by  his  brother. 
Edward  B.  Munsell.  M.  A.,  who  that  year  became  a  member  of  the  fac- 
ulty. Some  time  before  this  Rev.  Charles  W.  C.  Munsell,  of  the  Illinois 
Conference,  a  brother  of  the  president-elect,  was  elected  financial  agent 
for  the  university,  who,  with  the  president,  by  untiring  zeal  and  energy  in- 
spired such  confidence  among  the  people  of  the  patronizing  territory 
that  success  was  soon  assured.     They  advanced  money  for  the  comple- 


tion of  the  building,  finished  and  furnished  it,  and  opened  the  school  in 
the  following  September  with  seventeen  pupils.  The  faculty  consisted 
of  the  president.  Rev.  Oliver  S.  Munsell,  M.  A.,  Rev.  J.  T.  Tomlin, 
M.  A.,  and  Edward  B.  Munsell,  M.  A.;  the  total  enrollment  for  the 
year  1857-8  was  sixty  students.   ■• 

The  financial  condition  of  the  country  made  it  impossible  to  suc- 
cessfully complete  the  scholarship  subscription  begun  by  President  C.  W. 
Sears,  which  if  completed,  would,  in  the  end,  have  been  a  great  disad- 
vantage to  the  institution,  if  not  ruinous.  It  was  therefore  deemed  advis- 
able to  start  a  new  subscription  specifically  for  the  endowment  fund  condi- 
tioned upon  the  raising  of  cash  and  notes  of  hand  to  the  amount  of 
$25,000  within  three  years.  The  subscription  was  so  drawn  that  if  it 
was  secured  it  would  be  available  to  bind  the  old  conditional  subscription 
for  the  payment  of  half  the  amount  subscribed,  and  by  means  of  which 
it  was  desired  to  liquidate  the  existing  debt.  The  president  took  the 
field,  with  his  brother,  for  this  purpose,  and  with  untiring  zeal  pushed  the 
canvass  until  an  amount  was  secured  which  bound  enough  of  the  original 
subscriptions  to  liquidate  the  indebtedness  upon  the  institution. 

At  the  expiration  of  the  three  years'  contract,  the  trustees  assumed 
the  financial  responsibility  of  the  college;  but,  at  the  suggestion  of  the 
Munsell  brothers,  adopted  the  rule  which  was  inflexibly  maintained  until 
1866,  and  measurably  enforced  until  1873,  that  the  professors  must  ac- 
cept pro  rata  the  income  for  the  year  in  full  satisfaction  of  their  claims. 
To  this  rule.  Dr.  Munsell  says,  the  university  owes  its  life. 

The  growth  of  the  instititution  demanded  additional  buildings,  and 
in  1868  subscriptions  amounting  to  $40,000  were  taken  to  erect  the 
present  main  hall.  It  is  a  brick  structure  (with  the  exception  of  the  first 
story,  which  is  stone),  four  stories  in  height,  and  70x140  feet.  The 
corner-stone  was  laid  in  1870,  and  the  building  was  dedicated  in  June, 
1871,  having  cost  $100,000. 


PREPARATORY  BUILDING. 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH   AHD    ALUMNI    RECORD, 


Fully  awake  to  ths  imp:;rtarics  of  physical  laboratories  and  natural 
history  collections.  President  Munsell  brought  to  his  aid  the  wisdom  and 
services  of  Richard  H.  Holder,  a  skillful  ornithologist,  Prof.  Georgs  Vasey 
the  distinguished  botanist.  Mr.  Walsh  of  Rock  Island,  C.  D.  Wilber  and 
Prof.  Joseph  Henry.  LL.D.,  of  the  Smithsonian  Institute,  and  succeeded 
in  securing  the  nucleus  of  the  present  magnificent  collection  of  natural 
history.  Mr.  Munsell.  having  transferred  his  conference  membership 
to  the  Central  Illinois  Conference,  was  elected  to  the  General  Conference 
in  I860,  which  honor  was  conferred  upon  him  again  in  1854.  and  still 
again  in  1872.  and  in  the  last  conference  he  served  as  first  assistant 
secretary.  In  1863.  he  received  the  appointment  by  President  Lincoln 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  visitors  to  the  military  academy  at  West 
Point,  and  was  elected  president  of  the  board  which  numbered  among 
its  members  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 

Mr.  Munsell  was  an  earnest  student,  especially  in  the  department 
of  Ethics  and  Metaphysics,  and  in  addition  to  regular  correspondence  for 
the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review  and  the  Southern  Methodist  Quarterly 
Review  he  published  a  text-book  on  Mental  Philosophy  which  was 
placed  in  the  conference  course  of  study  of  his  church,  and  remained  as 
a  text-book  prescribed  by  the  bishops  of  the  church  for  many  years.  It 
was  also  used  in  many  of  the  colleges  of  the  country.     He  also  foand 


time  to  write  a  work  on  Ethics  which  has  never  been  published,  but  pro- 
nounced by  those  who  have  examined  the  manuscript  to  be  one  of  the 
ablest  and  most  comprehensive  treatments  of  the  subject. 

President  Munsell  is  a  man  of  superior  intellectual  ability,  and  was  a 
clear,  forcible  and  inspiring  teacher,  especially  in  his  chosen  department. 
Mental  Science.  His  career  at  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  is  a 
most  honorable  one.  A  study  of  the  catalogues  of  the  institution  shows 
that  during  the  first  year  of  his  administration  there  were  three  sopho- 
more students,  four  freshmen  and  thirteen  ranked  as  irregular,  and  forty 
in  the  preparatory  school.  In  1857  there  was  not  even  the  beginning  of 
a  library,  museum,  or  physical  laboratories,  while  in  1872  and  1873  we 
find  the  preparatory  building  in  good  condition,  the  new  building  com- 
pleted, a  faculty  of  ten  regular  professors,  including  professional  lectur- 
ers, and  a  roster  of  nine  graduates,  thirteen  seniors,  seventeen  juniors, 
twenty-six  sophomores,  thirty  freshmen,  twenty-two  irregulars,  and  a 
hundred  thirty-five  preparatory  students,  with  courses  which  com- 
pared very  favorably  with  the  best  colleges  in  the  west.  The  organization 
of  the  school  of  law  and  a  school  of  medicine  had  been  contemplated, 
and  lectures  were  delivered  by  the  chief  men  of  these  professions  before 
the  university  for  one  or  two  years  during  this  administration,  out  of 
which  lectures  came  the  organization  of  the  law  school  in  1874. 


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Samuel  Fallovs. 


President  or  tme  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  1873-75. 

Bishop  Samuel  Fallows.  D.   D..  was  born  in  England  and  came  with 
his  parents  to  this  country  while  yet  a  boy.     Soon  after  his  graduation  at 

the  University  of  Wisconsin 
he  was  offered  the  vice-presi- 
dency of  the  Galesville  Uni- 
versity in  Wisconsin,  and  for 
two  years  he  taught  there  with 
success.  Then  he  entered  the 
ministry  as  pastor  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  at  Oshkosh  and 
soon  gained  fame  as  an  elo- 
quent pulpit  orator.  When  the 
war  broke  out  he  went  to  the 
front  as  chaplain  of  the  Twenty- 
second  Wisconsin  Infantry. 
On  the  field  he  imbibed  the 
spirit  of  the  conflict  and  he 
organized  the  Fortieth  Wis- 
consin Infantry,  composed  en- 
tirely of  graduates  and  stu- 
dents of  the  various  institutions  in  that  State.  Such  a  band  of  educated 
fighters  had  not  been  known  in  the  army,  and  it  was  nicknamed  "the 
God  and  morality"  regiment. 

As  pastor  of  the  Summerfield  Methodist  Church  in  Milwaukee, 
then  the  leading  Methodist  church  in  Wisconsin,  Bishop  Fallows  re- 
entered upon  his  clerical  duties  at  the  close  of  the  war,  and  later  on  he 


SAMUEL    FALLOWS. 


was  made  pastor  of  the  Spring  Street  Methodist  Church  in  the  same 
city.  During  his  pastorate  there  Governor  Fairchild  appointed  him.  in 
1871.  to  the  office  of  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  and 
afterward  the  people  elected  him  twice  to  the  same  important  office. 

In  1873  Lawrence  University  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of 
doctor  of  divinity.  He  was  offered  the  chair  of  logic  and  rhetoric  in  the 
State  university  about  this  time,  but  he  declined,  preferring  to  wcrk  in 
the  pulpit.  Traces  of  his  splendid  work  as  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction are  visible  in  the  Wisconsin  public  schools  to  the  present  time. 

In  1873  Bishop  Fallows  was  elected  to  the  presidency  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University.  Here  he  manifested  superior  qualities  as  an  edu- 
cator, reconstructed  and  strengthened  the  courses  of  study,  thoroughly 
organized  the  School  of  Law  and  established  the  Non-resident  and  Post- 
graduate department,  which  has  drawn  the  attention  of  so  many  eminent 
men  to  the  University.  His  administration,  though  short,  was  brilliant. 
In  1875,  having  resigned  the  presidency  of  the  institution,  he  united  with 
the  Reformed  Episcopalian  Church  and  became  rector  of  the  St.  Paul's 
Church  of  Chicago,  and  was  soon  afterwards  elected  Bishop.  His  career 
in  that  denomination  and  in  the  city  of  Chicago  is  as  honorable  as  it  is 
widely  known. 

His  resignation  was  a  complete  surprise  to  the  university,  and  was 
universally  regretted  by  its  friends  and  patrons.  His  suavity  of  manner, 
thorough  scholarship,  extended  experience  and  prestige  as  an  educator 
and  orator  had  awakened  the  hope  that  a  new  era  had  dawned,  and  that 
under  his  wise  management  and  masterful  presentation  of  the  cause  of 
Christian  education  large  gifts  would  be  secured  and  money  would  flow 
more  readily  into  the  treasury  of  the  institution. 

In  addition  to  his  ecclesiastical  duties,  he  holds  a  responsible  office 
in  connection  with  the  Illinois  State  Reformatory,  and  is  the  active 
president  of  the  People's  Institute. 


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HlSIURICAL    5KB rCH    AND    ALUMNI    RbCORU. 


V.  H.  H.  Adams. 

Prcsident  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyah 

UMIVERSITY.    1875-60. 


President  William  Henry  Harrison 
Adams.B.A..  M.A..  B.D..  D.D..wasboin 
in  Effingham  county.  Illinois,  in  1840. 
being  descended  from  English  ancestry, 
of  the  same  line  as  JohnQuincy  Adams. 
He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  A, 
I  Nth  llllinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  and 
In  1863  was  promoted  as  first  lieuten- 
ant and  served  as  such  until  near  the  ex- 
piration of  his  term,  when  he  was  bre- 
Vetted  captain,  and  later  still,  as  major 
of  the  regiment.  He  claimed  to  have 
drilled  the  first  two  thousand  colored 
troops,  formed  them  into  companies 
and  offered  them  for  service. 

He  prepared  for  college  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  his  native  State  and  in 
the  preparatory  school  of  the  North- 
western University,  and  was  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1870.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  at  an  early  age  and 
served  as  a  student  pastor  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  university  during  his  college 
course.  After  graduation  in  1870,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  Conference 
and  was  stationed  at  Monticello:  after- 


wards, at  Clinton,  and  was  in  the  third  year  of  his  pastorate  at 


W.  H.  H.  Adams.  President.  1875-1880. 


that  place  when  called  to  the  presidency  of 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  Au- 
gust 17,  1875.  His  administration  be- 
gan under  gravest  discouragements. 
The  panic  of  1873  depreciated  values, 
prostrated  business  and  indirectly  added 
greatly  to  the  indebtedness  of  the  in- 
stitution for  its  main  building;  but  with 
zeal  and  energy  rarely  surpassed  he  de- 
voted himself  tD  the  task  of  saving  the 
institution  from  its  financial  embara^s- 
ments. 

In  a  very  short  time  he  won  the  con- 
fidence of  the  patronizing  conferences. 
To  the  ministry  he  imparted  his  own 
boundless  faith,  which  aroused  that 
energy  and  unanimity  of  action  am.ong 
them  so  necessary  to  render  possible 
the  founding  ot  a  Christian  college. 

His  keen  insight  into  human  nature, 
his  intuition  of  character,  his  knowledge 
of  forces  controling  in  society,  his  clear- 
ness, vigor,  accuracy  and  fluency  of 
speech,  his  affable  manner  and  ready 
wit  were  all  elements  of  his  great  power 
in  the  pulpit,  on  the  platform,  in  ths 
class-room,  in  society  and  a;  the  hearth- 
stone. He  became  a  favorite  of  the 
people  who  sought  his  services  on  great 
occasions.     As  a  platform  speaker  and 


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a  man  of  rare  skill  at  dedicatory  services,  he  became  widely  known.     In 
the  latter  service  this  writer  never  saw  him  excelled. 

How  admirably  he  succeeded  in  saving  the  instiution  from  its 
crushing  debt  may  be  seen  from  the  following  report  of  a  special  com- 
mittee appointed  June.  1888.  and  made  to  the  board  of  trustees  in  Sep- 
tember of  the  same  year: 

The   actual  amount  of  tl:e  endowment  of  this  institution  is  $72.989. 1 1.  con- 
sisting. 
First,  of  notes  well  secured,  drawing  interest,  with  some  cash  on  hand 

ready  to  be  loaned,  and  in  hands  of  treasurer         .         .         .         $41,931   36 
Second,  in  original  notes,  and  not  secured        .....       27.406  75 

Third,  of  real  estate,  valued  at 2.740  00 

Fourth,  interest  notes  not  due  and  educational  notes         .         .         .  911  00 


Making  a  grand  total  of $72,989   11 

A  bonded  indebtedness  of 22.000  00 

Assets  consisting  of  promissory  notes  and  of  subscriptions,  good  and  bad   16.310  79 

The  Cramp  fund  of  about  $25,000  not  available,  is  not  considered 

in  this  report. 

Dr.  Adams  was  admired  and  loved  more  sincerely  and  universally 
than  any  other  man  who  has  ever  been  connected  with  the  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan  University.  To  know  him  was  to  love  him.  In  scholarship  he  was 
clear  but  modest;  in  power  of  interpretation,  reaady  and  masterful; 
in  society,  on  the  platform  and  in  the  pulpit,  a  magnet  that  irresistibly 
drew  men  unto  him  and  his  cause;  in  method  of  expression  strikingly 
original  and  pleasing.  When  the  history  of  the  university  is  known  as 
it  has  been  made,  it  will  not  be  a  surprise  to  learn  that  President  Adams 


laid  down  his  life  for  the  Illinois  Wssleyan  University. 

His  heroic  zeal  and  self-sacrificing  nature  are  worthy  of  the  tribute 
paid  him  at  the  time  of  his  death  by  James  Miller : 

••He  knew  no  moral  code  which  required  him.  to  consult  his  own 
interests  in  responding  to  the  call  of  God  and  ministering  to  the  world's 
need.  He  valued  neither  money,  nor  health,  nor  pleasure,  nor  the  edu- 
cational rules  of  self-preservation,  when  the  cry  for  help  greeted  his  ear 
and  touched  the  sensitive  chords  of  his  sympathetic  heart.  His  hand 
was  always  open  to  minister  to  the  needs  of  the  poor.  No  discouraged 
student  struggling  with  a  hard  lot  of  poverty  to  obtain  an  education  ever 
appealed  to  him  in  vain.  No  widow  or  orphan  child  in  distress  ever 
turned  to  him  for  sympathy  and  aid  without  finding  in  him  a  friend.  No 
brother  minister,  discouraged  with  the  burdens  and  cares  of  an  unfruitful 
field,  ever  sought  his  sympathy  and  encouragement  without  finding  a 
•warm  response.  He  lived  to  bear  the  burdens  of  others.  He  wrecked 
his  constitution,  ruined  his  health,  shattered  his  nervous  organization, 
and  sacrificed  his  life  for  the  sole  satisfaction  of  doing  good,  and  making 
himself  helpful  to  others.  His  sympathy  knew  no  limits  of  creed,  caste, 
or  clan.  He  was  humanitarian  in  all  his  impulses.  He  was  filled  with 
a  divinity  and  charity  as  universal  as  humanity.  He  was  forbearing. 
magnamimous  and  forgiving  toward  his  enemies,  and  when  jealousy  and 
calumny  pursued  him  into  comparative  obscurity,  he  reached  forth  the 
hand  of  brotherly  kindness  toward  those  who  had  smitten  him,  and  from 
behind  the  veil  which  hides  the  spirit  world  from  ours,  he  sends  back  the 
olive  branch  of  peace,  and  the  whispering  breath  of  an  undyinj  charity." 


Wm.  H.  Wilder.  President  from 


ILLINOIS  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY. 


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V.  H.  ViLDER.  President  froh  isss. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees  in  June.  1888, 
Rev.  William  H.  Wilder.  M.A..  D.D.,  was  elected  president. 

Since  1888  grounds  for  an  athletic  park  have  been  secured  at  a 
cost  of  $2,000  :  lots  for  a  janitor's  residence  and  a  gym.nasium  at  a  cost 
of  $1,900;  perhaps  $15,000  has  been  expended  in  the  improvement  of 
buildings  and  grounds,  putting  them  in  excellent  condition. 

The  Shellabarger  and  H.  S.  Swayne  chemical  laboratories  have 
been  added  to  the  science  departments;  $1,800  has  been  expended  in 
cases  for  the  natural  history  collections,  $1,000  of  which  was  the  gift  of 
an  alumnus.  Rev.  William  Luke  Cunningham,  of  Point  Pleasant,  New 
Jersey,  Besides  smaller  valuable  contributions  for  the  museum,  the 
university  has  received  the  George  W.  and  Rebecca  S.  Lichtenthaler  col- 
lection, valued  at  $25,000.  In  addition  to  the  above,  cash  and  notes 
amounting  to  $7,500  have  been  taken  for  the  improvement  fund.  The 
endowment  fund  has  been  increased  by  farm  lands  from  Hiram  Buck, 
D.D..  valued  at  $27,500,  not  yet  available;  $58,500,  $55,000  of  which 
was  necessary  to  meet  the  conditions  of  the  deed  executed  by  Hiram 
and  Martha  Buck;  $6,000  by  bequest  from  Jonathan  Totten ;  and 
$600  by  bequest  from  Miss  Mary  Williams,  The  total  endowment  July 
1,   1895.  was  $187,999,  including  the  Cramp  fund. 


LA!30R.f\T0f^!ES. 


all  modern  conveniences,  and  is  supplied  witn  a  full  line  of  apparatus  for 
accurate  and  advanced  work.  The  Qualitative  laboratory  is  thoroughly 
equipped  with  all  apparatus  necessary  for  furnishing  to  each  student  a 
separate  outfit  for  performing  the  experiments  in  chemistry,  and  for 
qualitative  and  blow-pipe  work.  Perfect  ventilation  is  secured  in  both 
laboratories  by  an  ingenious  apparatus  placed  therein  by  Mr,  Henry  S. 
Swayne. 

The  Henry  S.  Swayne  Private  Laboratory,  a  personal  gift  to  Dr, 
Graham  from  Mrs.  Swayne.  in  recognition  of  her  husband's  friendship 
for  him.  has  been  given  excellent  quarters  in  rooms  adjoining  the  other 
laboratories,  and  the  university  reaps  the  full  benefit  of  the  gift  of  this 
thoroughly  equipped  and  highly  expensive  laboratory  in  all  special  and 
research  work,  and  is  enabled  to  offer  to  her  students  unexcelled  advan- 
tages for  special  work  in  this  branch. 

Five  rooms  are  devoted  to  the  work  of  biology  and  physics,  one 
being  for  class-room  use.  one  for  storage  of  plants  and  animals,  and 
containing  a  large  aquarium,  and  three  for  laboratory  purposes.  A  room 
has  just  been  fitted  up  for  the  work  in  physics,  making  very  commodious 
quarters.  These  laboratories  are  well  equipped  with  tables  and  material 
for  work.  The  material  is  supplemented  by  a  good  working  library. 
The  outfit  of  microscopic  material  in  biology  gives  students  in  this  line 
as  good  facilities  for  work  as  are  offered  by  the  best  institutions. 

The  MusEun. 


The  She'.labarger  laboratory,  donated  by  Mr,  David  S,  Shellabarger, 
of  Decatur,  and  a  few  other  friends  of  the  university,  has  greatly  in- 
creased the  facilities  for  advanced  cherriistry  work.     It  is  furnished  with 


The  history  of  the  museum  is  interesting  as  well  as  varied.  The 
first  catalogue,  for  the  years  1851-2.  states  that  "there  are  on  the 
shelves  of  the  cabinet  about  1.700  specimens."  This,  presumably,  re- 
fers to  scientific  specimens.      From  this  nucleus  has  grcwn  a  collection 


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HISTORICAL     SKETCH    AND     ALUMNI     RECORD. 


SECTION    OF    SHELLABARCIiR    LABORATORY. 


ILLINOIS  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY. 


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that  now  fills  to  overflowing  the  two  large  rooms  devoted  to  that  purpose, 
worth  many  thousands  of  dollars. 

We  will  briefly  summarize  the  additions  from  time  to  time,  as  re- 
vealed by  the  file  of  catalogues.  In  1860  the  next  statement  is  found 
concerning  the  collections,  when  -'the  nucleus  of  an  interesting  and 
valuable  cabinet  of  mineralogy,  geology  and  zoology,  has  been  secured.'" 
In  1863  large  and  very  valuable  additions  were  made  to  the  Museum 
of  Natural  History,  particularly  in  the  departments  of  geology  and  pale- 
ontology, by  a  contribution  from  the  State  Cabinet  of  Geology  at  Spring- 
field. The  collections  of  that  year  were  said  to  number  6.000  specimens. 

The  next  catalogue,  1863,  states  that  the  collections  have  been 
largely  increased  since  the  last  announcement,  summing  up  four  thou- 
sand specimens  in  geology  and  paleontology,  one  thousand  one  hundred 
salt  water  and  one  thousand  fresh  water  and  land  shells,  a  large  botani- 
cal collection,  one  hundred  specimens  in  ornithology,  etc.  The  next 
year,  1864,  there  was  an  additional  hundred  birds,  a  valuable  entomo- 
logical collection,  and  a  fine  collection  of  minerals  from  the  Smithsonian. 

In  1876,  Dr.  George  Vasey  added  a  collection  of  woods  of  the 
State,  and  in  1872  there  was  received  a  collection  of  Patent  Office 
models. 

In  1880-81  additions  were  made  of  a  collection  of  plants  from  Colo- 
rado from  the  Wheeler  Geological  Survey,  plants  from  Utah  from  the 
Powell  Geological  Survey,  a  fine  collection  of  corals  and  mollusca  by  pur- 
chase, and  a  collection  of  marine  mollusks  from  the  Smithsonian  Institute. 

In  1886  President  W.  H.  H.  Adams  added  625  specimens  of 
shells,  fossils,  ore,  etc.,  while  695  specimens  of  various  kinds  were  re- 
ceived from  the  United  States  National  Museum.  The  additions  for  the 
year  1887  were  1.200  specimens,  chiefly  of  pottery,  minerals  and  fossils 
from  the  United  States  National  Museum.  No  attempt  was  made  to 
arrange  the  material  for  a  couple  of  years,  as  there  were  no  cases  and 


no  wav  consequently  for  arranging  it.  In  1891  Rev.  William  Luke  Cun- 
ningham. Ph.  D.,  of  Point  Pleasant,  New  Jersey,  an  alumnus  of  the  uni- 
versity, contributed  $  1 ,000  for  the  preparation  of  cases.  These  were 
made  and  placed  on  the  second  floor  of  the  main  building,  in  the  room 
formerly  occupied  by  the  library,  the  library  going  into  the  quarters 
vacated  by  the  collections.  The  specimens  were  immediately  cleaned 
and  arranged  for  exibition  and  made  a  good  display,  entirely  filling  the 
cases,  though  many  of  the  shells,  stones,  fossils,  etc.  had  been  rendered 
worthless  by  the  loss  of  their  labels,  with  no  way  of  determining  or  identi' 
tying  them.  Meanwhile  many  small  collections  kept  coming  in.  filling 
the  cases  to  overflowing. 

The  year  1893  was  momentous  in  the  history  of  the  museum,  and 
marks  an  epoch  in  its  growth.  In  that  year  the  museum  became  the 
recipient  through  bequest  of  the  George  W.  and  Rebecca  S.  Lichten- 
thaler  collection  of  shells,  sea  algas,  and  ferns. 

A  brief  sketch  of  Mr.  Lichtenthaler  and  his  life  will  be  appropriate 
here,  inasmuch  as  he  left  to  the  museum  a  collection  that  has  no  equal 
in  this  section  of  the  country, 

George  W.  Lichtenthaler,  one  of  the  best  known  of  American 
conchologists.  and  one  of  the  most  earnest  and  energetic  collectors  of 
natural  history  specimens,  passed  away  at  San  Francisco  on  Tuesday, 
February  20,  1893,  death  being  caused  by  fatty  degeneration  of  the  heart. 
He  was  60  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Lichtenthaler  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  and  came  to  Bloom- 
ington.  111.,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two.  For  five  years  he  was  a  drug  clerk, 
then  bought  out  the  stock,  conducted  business  for  himself  for  seventeen 
years,  after  which  he  retired  with  a  snug  fortune.  During  this  time 
he  imbibed  a  taste  for  natural  history,  and  after  his  retirement  devoted 
his  entire  time  and  the  proceeds  of  his  large  estate  to  the  gathering  and 
collecting    of  shells,  ferns    and    algas.      Mrs.   Lichtenthaler  died  twelve 


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years  ago.  leaving  no  children.  After  death  Mr.  Lichtenthaler  turned 
his  mind  more  than  ever  to  his  chosen  work.  His  wife's  death  was  a 
great  blow  to  him.  and  he  was  no  doubt  greatly  moved  to  collecting  to 

forget  his  sorrow.  His  affection 
for  her  is  shown  in  his  desire  that 
the  vast  collection  should  be 
given  a  name  that  would  incor- 
porate the  name  of  ■  Rebecca  S. 
Lichtenthaler.' 

••  Mr.  Lichtenthaler  was  an 
amateur  collector,  never  having 
sold  specimens  or  labored  for 
hire.  His  was  a  labor  of  love. 
If  he  could  not  exchange  he  would 
give  of  his  duplicates  to  those 
who  would  make  use  of  them. 
Many  people  of  this  community 
treasure  collections  from  distant 
climes  given  by  him,  and  many  a 
lad  with  a  love  for  nature  has 
had  this  love  fanned  into  a  flame 
through  his  encouragement,  and 
has  gone  from  the  presence  of  this 
CEO.  w.  LICHTENTHALER.  great-hearted  man  not  only  with  a 

greater  love  for  nature's  works,  but  with  a  liberal  gift  of  shells  or  other 
specimens  carefully  preserved.  Many  a  case  has  he  recounted  to  me, 
sitting  by  my  fireside,  of  boys  he  has  helped  to  knowledge  and  position, 
by  pointing  the  way  and  lending  substantial  aid. 

••Had  he  desired,  he   might   have  been  famous  as  a  traveler,  by 
putting  his  observations  into  print.      But  he  disliked  and  shunned  pub- 


licity, and  we  know  of  nothing  he  has  written.  He  was  one  of  those 
workers  who  cared  little  for  making  new  genera  or  species,  and  who 
collected  not  wholly  for  himself,  but  also  for  his  fellow  workers  and  for 
public  museums.  In  his  travels  he  has  been  in  nearly  every  country  in 
the  world,  and  has  been  several  times  along  the  entire  west  American 
coast,  was  at  home  in  the  Sandwich  Islands,  has  traversed  the  coast  of 
Europe  from  North  Cape  to  Gibraltar,  and  has  been  up  and  down  both 
coasts  of  Africa,  as  well  as  around  the  Indian  Ocean.  In  these  travels 
many  of  the  rarest  specimens  known  to  science  were  brought  together, 
and  are  left  among  his  great  collection. 

■•He  was  one  of  the  early  members  of  the  'American  Association 
of  Conchologists, '  being  enrolled  as  a  member  May  15,  1890.  His  spe- 
cial study  was  shells  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  was  an  active  and 
enthusiastic  member,  and  did  much  to  promote  its  work.  His  gift  of 
Pacific  Coast  shells  to  the  collection  of  the  Association  was  a  large  and 
valuable  addition. 

"Few  men  have  as  wide  a  personal  acquaintance  with  men  of 
science  as  he  had.  Devoting  all  his  energy  and  time  to  travel  and 
collecting,  and  having  been  all  over  the  American  continent,  he  met 
them  everywhere.  His  retiring  disposition  led  him  to  make  little  men- 
tion of  his  achievements,  and  his  great  work  was  not  known  to  many  of 
the  people  of  his  home.  But  to  a  few  of  his  friends  and  acquaintances 
who  could  appreciate  his  work  he  unburdened  his  heart,  and  would  re- 
count his  travels  and  experiences,  and  give  descriptions  of  museums  and 
countries,  for  hours  at  a  time.  He  was  an  interesting  conversationalist, 
and  would  relate  his  experiences  in  a  manner  that  always  commanded 
attention. 

'■  His  main  work  was  in  conchology.  His  collection  embraces  many 
highly  polished  specimens,  and  he  spared  no  expense  to  have  always  the 
finest  and  best  that  were  to  be  had.     While  on  a  trip  to  France  a  few 


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years  ago  he  heard  of  an  English  firm  who  cut  gastropods  longitudinal'y 
lo  show  their  spiral  arrangement,  and  he  has  case  after  case  of  shells  of 
this  exquisite  workmanship.  All  his  specimens  a-e  authoritatively  cor- 
rect, having  been  labeled  by  the  highest  authorities,  and  we  are  glad 
that  he  has  left  the  collection  where  it  is  accessible  to  the  pub'. ic  for 
comparisons. 

••  His  collection  embraces  shells,  crustaceans,  echinoderms.  coral- 
lines, corals,  fossil  shells  and  plants,  minerals,  ferns  and  marine  algas. 
There  are  from  six  to  eight  thousand  species  of  shells,  and  at  a  low 
estimate  twenty-five  thousand  specimens,  from  all  parts  of  the  world. 
There  are  eight  hundred  species  of  marine  algge.  and  four  hundred 
species  of  ferns.  The  latter  include  a  nearly  complete  collection  of  the 
ferns  of  North  America,  a  complete  collection  from  the  Hawaiian 
Islands;  also  many  from  India,  China,  Japan,  Australia.  New  Zealand. 
South  America.  Europe,  etc.  He  stated  that  he  had  two  species  not  in 
any  other  collection. 

••  Probably  the  bulk  of  the  specimens  in  this  collection  will  have  little 
attraction  for  the  ordinary  visitor,  and  many  could  not  possibly  be  put  out 
for  public  inspection  without  certain  ruin. 

■•  Many  are  unattractive,  many  so  minute  that  they  must  be  exam- 
ined with  the  microscope,  while  many  are  beautifully  polished.  The 
most  of  them  are  of  his  own  collecting,  but  a  large  number  were  secured 
through  his  exchange  of  duplicates,  while  he  bought  many  outright.  A 
few  are  very  rare  and  their  value  cannot  be  determined.  He  spent  a 
week  in  Michigan  searching  for  a  rare  species,  and  succeeded  in  getting 
three  specimens. 

•  The  ferns  and  algae  are  in  books  provided  for  such  purposes,  the 
plants  being  gummed  to  the  leaves.  There  are  three  volumes  of  the 
algas,  containing  about  a  thousand  specimens,  collected  from  all  parts  of 
the  world,  and  all  identified.     Besides  the  type  specimens  thus  prepared 


in  books,  there  are  many  duplicate  specimens  on  separate  papers,  which 
he  kept  for  exchange. 

•■  It  will  th-js  be  ssen  that  the  collection  of  plants  d^es  not  occupy 
much  space,  and  is  put  up  in  a  very  compact  form.  These  types  could 
not  be  thrown  open  to  the  public,  as  the  thumbing  and  turning  of  the 
leaves  would  soon  break  the  specimens  to  pieces,  but  they  are  accessible 
to  students  cf  the  subjects. 

"This  collection,  his  entire  work  for  twenty  years,  he  t)equeathed 
to  the  111  nois  Wesleyan  University,  together  with  $500.  to  put  it  in 
suitable  shape  for  preservation.  Its  value  in  money  can  only  be  esti- 
mated by  what  it  would  cost  to  replace  the  collection.  Allow  $1,000  a 
year  for  twenty  years,  and  as  much  more  for  expenses  (a  low  estimate), 
and  allow  for  purchases  and  means  of  preservation,  and  $50,000  would 
be  very  reasonable. 

•■The  university  already  possessed  a  fine  conchological  collection 
of  several  thousand  species.  A  large  part  of  these  were  given  by  the 
Smithsonian  Institute,  mostly  marine  shells,  and  several  donations  of 
land  and  fresh  water  shells  make  enough  to  fill  three  large  cases. 
There  is  in  the  university  a  large  collection  of  fossils,  shells  and  brachio- 
pods  from  the  government.  The  herbarium  contains  three  thousand 
species,  with  thousands  of  duplicates.  These  are  largely  phanerogams. 
Add  to  these  Mr.  Lichtenthaler's  great  collection  of  shells,  ferns  and 
sea  algas,  and  it  is  readily  seen  that  the  collections  give  opportunity  for 
study  equalled  by  few  institutions." 

New  cases,  after  the  best  pattern,  were  made  for  this  collection, 
and  were  put  in  the  room  formerly  occupied  by  the  Adelphic  society, 
adjoining  the  room  already  filled  with  material.  The  collection  makes 
a  beautiful  display,  and  is  seen  and  admired  daily  by  many  visitors.  In 
the  corner  of  the  room  is  an  alcove,  in  which  is  stored  the  collection  of 
plants,  embracing  some  six  thousand  species. 


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Since  the  addition  of  this  great  collection  in  1893.  numerous  smaller 
collections  have  been  coming  in.  which  have  received  mention  from 
time  to  time  in  the  annual  catalogue.  Summing  up.  we  find  that  the 
museum  contains  the  following  donations  of  material  with  the  names  of 
the  persons  making  the  gifts : 

Major  J.  W.  Powell.-— A  large  collection  of  Zuni  and  Moqui  utensils,  pottery. 
articles  of  dress,  etc. 

A  large  collection  of  minerals  and  fossils,  collected  on  the  Powell  geological 
survey. 

A  large  collection  of  photographs  of  western  scenery  of  geological  interes'.. 

Dr.  Ceorge  Vasey. — A  collection  of  the  woods  of  Illinois. 

The  Vasey  herbarium,  containing  most  of  the  phanerogamia  of  Illinois. 

A  collection  of  plants  from  Colorado  from  the  Wheeler  geological  survey. 

A  collection  of  plants  from  Utah  from  the  Powell  geological  survey. 

Dr.  Benjamin  D.  Walsh.—  (K  valuable  collection  of  about  1. 000  insects. 

Richard  H.  Hotder. — About  200  finely  mounted  specimens  in  ornithology. 
besides  many  specimens  in  mammalogy  and  herpetology. 

William  H.  H.Adams. — A  collection  of  625  specimens  of  shells,  fossils,  and  ores. 

Illinois  Geological  Survey. — A  collection  of  fo.ssils  illustrating  the  geology  of 
Illinois. 

The  Smithsonian  Institution  and  United  States  National  Museum.—  A  fine  collection 
of  native  and  foreign  minerals. 

A  large  collection  of  marine  invertebrates. 

A  collection  of  70  mammal  skins. 

A  collection  of  180  North  American  bird  skins. 

The  Ceorge  W.  and  Rebecca  S.  Lichtenthaler  Collestion. — The    collection    em- 


braces some  10.000  species  of  shells.  1.000  species  of  marine  algae.  500  species 
of  ferns,  with  many  mosses,  lichens,  etc. 

Edward  M.  Hoblit  and  J.  Dun'ght  Funk. — A  collection  of  bird  eggs. 

Charles  S.  Lyies. — A  miscellaneous  collection  of  birds,  reptiles  and  mam- 
mals from  Idaho. 

N.  Walworth  Marsh. — A  collection  of  bird  eggs  and  skins,  all  well  prepared 
and  properly  labeled. 

Willbur  Wright. — A  collection  of  bird  eggs. 

Clarence  E.  Snyder. — A  collection  of  Lepidoptera. 

Percy  D.  Getty. — A  collection  of  fifty  sets  of  bird  eggs,  all  in  excellent  con- 
dition and  properly  identified  and  labeled. 

The  Curator,  Morton  J.  Elrod. — A  large  collection  of  miscellaneous  material, 
including  plants,  insects,  birds  and  mammal  skins,  alcoholic  specimens,  photo- 
graphs and  curios,  collected  on  a  recent  expedition  to  Idaho  and  the  National  park. 

Henry  W.  Shryock. — Fifty  fossils  from  Richland  county.  111. 

H.  E.  Robbins,  Pueblo.  Colo.  — A  series  of  embryo  chicks. 

Herbert  S.  Cadwell. — A  collection  of  butterflies. 

Albert  Pike — A  United  States  dagger,  picked  up  in  a  field  in  McLean  county. 

The  Curator.  Morton  J.  Elrod. — A  collection  of  fresh  water  shells  from  the 
Des  Moines  and  Raccoon  rivers. 

J.  W.  Wilson.  Canadian  Geological  Survey.  Ottawa.  Can. — A  collection  of  min- 
erals from  Canada. 

Prof.  Henry  Montgomery .  Salt  Lake  City.  Utah. — A  collection  of  fifty  minerals 
from  Utah. 

The  museum  is  thus  seen  to  contain  a  great  deal  of  material  for 
study,  and  furnishes  an  excellent  opportunity  to  do  special  work  along 
many  lines. 


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In  October,  1894,  Mr.  C.  A.  Behr,  of  Chicago,  presented  the  uni- 
versity an  excellent  reflecting  telescope  eighteen  and  one-half  inches  in 
diameter.  The  instrument  is  provided  with  right  ascension  and  declina- 
tion circles,  a  driving  clock,  and  a  two-inch  finder;  a  parallel  wire 
micrometer,  a  position  micrometer,  and  a  complete  outfit  of  shades, 
eye-pieces,  etc.  A  visual  and  photographic  spectroscope  has  been  de- 
signed, a  duplicate  of  the  one  now  in  use  in  the  Potsdam  observatory, 
Germany.  This  instrument,  with  a  splendid  six-inch  refracting  tele- 
scope, enables  the  university  to  offer  excellent  opportunities  for  study 
and  investigation.  The  observatory  building  is  situated  on  the  northeast 
corner  of  the  campus,  and  is  furnished  with  many  modern  improvements. 

The  gymnasium  building,  a  modest  brick  structure,  is  located  one- 
half  block  east  of  the  campus.  It  is  well  equipped  with  all  the  apparatus 
necessary  for  instruction  in  physical  culture. 


The  Libraries. 


••  in  the  first  catalogue  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Universitv,  pub- 
lished the  year  of  its  establishment,  we  find  it  stated  that  there  was  at 
that  time  the  nucleus  of  a  miscellaneous  and  scientific  library  consisting 
of  about  one  thousand  volumes.  This,  with  botanical  and  natural  history 
specimens  and  scientific  apparatus,  occupied  what  is  now  the  cloak  room 
on  the  second  floor  of  the  preparatory  building. 

A  short  time  after  this  the  library  was  divided  between  the  two 
literary  societies  and   removed  to   the   Munsellian   and  Belles   Lettres 


halls,  which  occupied  respectively  the  north  east  room  on  the  ground 
floor,  and  the  south  room  on  the  third  floor,  of  the  preparatory  building. 
Later  we  find  the  library  increased  in  size,  altogether  once  more,  and 
reposing  on  shelves  arranged  for  its  accommodation  in  what  is  now  the 
natural  history  museum,  on  the  second  floor  of  the  college  building. 
Here,  in  a  convenient,  pleasant  room,  and  under  the  direction  of  Mrs. 
Sue  M.  D.  Fry,  it  was  used  by  a  large  number  of  the  students.  But  in 
the  fall  of  1891,  as  this  room  was  needed  for  the  museum,  the  library 
was  again  moved,  this  time  into  its  present  quarters  on  the  third  floor 
of  the  preparatory  building. 

It  is  all  that  could  be  desired,  in  being  a  large,  pleasant,  well 
lighted  room,  with  windows  on  three  sides  and  a  most  charming  view 
to  the  north  and  east. 

Catalogues  record  the  fact  that  there  were  important  additions 
made  every  year  to  the  original  one  thousand  volumes.  About  the  year 
1857  Dr.  0.  S.  Munsell  was  instrumental  in  making  this  one  of  the  dis- 
tributing points  for  state  and  national  publications.  These  books  are 
well  bound  in  leather  and  are  exceedingly  valuable  for  reference. 

The  books  of  the  non-resident  library  are  a  very  important  addition. 
These  books  are  all  new  and  the  result  of  recent  research  of  the  best 
scholars  in  science,  literature,  history,  language  and  philosophy. 

Others  of  the  more  recent  additions  are,  the  Lichtenthaler  library, 
which  came  to  the  university  at  tne  same  time  that  the  collection  of 
shells  and  mosses  was  received  ;  the  library  of  the  Rev.  N.  R.  Davies, 
which  was  donated  to  the  Wesleyan  in  1893;  the  well-selected  set  of 
■books  of  the  Y.  M.  and  Y.  W.  C.  A.;  bound  volumes  of  current  litera- 
ture which  are  added  year  by  year  from  the  reading  room.  There  is 
also  continually  being  added  literature  from  the  different  departments 
to  supply  materials  for  seminary  courses. 

Altogether  there  are  about  seven  thousand  volumes  at  present  in 


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the  library,  which  is  open  to  the  students  most  of  the  hours  during  the 
day.  Competent  monitors  are  in  charge,  under  the  general  supervision 
of  the  librarian,  and  books  may  be  used  there  for  reference  or  even 
taken  from  the  library  under  certain  conditions. 

Although  most  of  the  books  are  well  chosen  and  are  used  by  many 
students,  yet  there  is  no  department  of  the  uni\/ersity  that  is  in  greater 
need  of  additional  material."  -Wesley  ana,  1 895. 


small  membership  fee  is  required  for  franchise  privileges,  and.  as  there 
are  125  members,  this  fee,  together  with  the  interest  on  principal  loaned 
by  the  association,  and  the  $50  granted  by  the  executive  committee. 
places  in  the  hands  of  the  literary  committee  over  $100  to  be  expended 
annually  for  literature,  thus  making  it  possible  to  support  a  first-class 
feading  room ;  and  likewise,  should  the  board  make  permanent  the 
annual  appropriation,  assuring  future  excellence  for  all  time. 


THE:  Wilder  Readinq  Roon  /"Issociatio/m, 


The  Wesleta/n  Lectuf?e  Course. 


In  the  fall  of  1889.  nearly  $400  was  subscribed  by  the  faculty  and 
students  and  a  few  friends  of  the  institution  for  the  purpose  of  fitting  up 
a  reading  room  and  purchasing  literature  therefor.  Shortly  after  holi- 
days the  room  was  ready  for  use.  and  an  excellent  selection,  consisting 
of  all  the  best  magazines  and  periodicals,  was  placed  on  the  tables. 
The  organization  proved  to  be  a  thoroughly  active  one,  and  has  been  of 
great  benefit  to  the  college.  It  soon  became  evident  to  those  who  had 
the  interests  of  the  association  at  heart,  that  the  advantages  enjoyed  by 
the  members  should  be  thrown  open  to  the  students.  Consequently  a 
proposition  was  made  to  the  board  of  trustees  to  turn  over  to  the  college 
the  use  of  the  room  for  college  purposes,  and  to  grant  the  use  of  the 
literature  to  all  students,  provided  the  board  would  give  the  association 
space  in  the  new  library  room  and  would  give  $50  per  year  toward  its 
support  instead  of  furnishing  a  janitor  as  before.  This  the  executive 
committee  of  the  board  agreed  to  do  for  this  present  year,  with  the  prob- 
ability that  the  arrangement  will  be  made  permanent  at  the  meeting  of 
the   board   in  June.     While   no   charge  is  made  for  use  of  literature,  a 


In  the  fall  of  1890,  the  managers  of  the  People's  Lecture  Course. 
who  for  years  previous  had  provided  high  class  literary  entertainments  for 
the  city,  became  disheartened  by  lack  of  patronage,  and  abandoned  the 
field.  Drs.  Wilder  and  Graham,  believing  that  this  was  the  Wesleyan's 
opportunity  to  gain  control  of  the  course,  became  personally  responsible 
for  a  course  involving  an  outlay  of  $1,200;  they  then  laid  the  matter 
before  the  Reading  Room  Association.  The  course  was  enthusiastically 
endorsed  by  the  association,  and  the  enterprise  proved  successful.  A 
good  course  was  given,  and  the  management  at  the  close  of  the  year 
had  $12  of  margin. 

The  next  year  a  much  more  expensive  course  was  undertaken,  and 
each  year  since  then  the  best  talent  obtainable  has  been  brought  be- 
fore the  students  and  people  of  the  city  at  very  low  prices.  Each  year 
a  small  sum  has  passed  into  the  treasury  after  all  bills  were  settled : 
and  over  $400  has  been  placed  on  interest  to  aid  in  the  support  of  the 
reading  room.  The  management  of  the  course  has  been  advantageous 
in  many  ways,  and  has  brought  the  university  into  closer  touch  and 
sympathy  with  the  people  of  the  city. 


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Adhission  of  La-dies. 


In  1870  the  board  of  trustees,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the 
faculty,  admitted  ladies  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  accorded  to  gen- 
tlemen. The  wisdom  of  that  action  has  never  been  questioned  by  any 
one  who  has  taken  pains  to  inform  himself  upon  tne  subject  in  its  relation 
to  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  We  believ^e  co-education  of  the 
sexes  is  American.  Christian  and  rational.  The  writer  was  in  a  position 
to  judge  of  the  effect  the  admission  of  ladies  had  upon  the  young  men,  at 
the  time,  and  now  occupies  the  most  advantageous  position  for  observing 
the  working  of  the  principle  in  its  effect  upon  both  sexes,  and  he  does  not 
hesitate  to  say  that  co-education  refines  the  young  man  and  makes  him 
more  gentlemanly  without  weakening  him.  and  strengthens  and  broadens 
the  young  woman  without  rendering  her  in  any  sense  masculine.  In 
fact  we  heartily  endorse  the  sentiment  expressed  by  Lady  Henry  Somer- 
set in  her  recent  address  before  the  World's  W.  C.  T.  U. 

She  said  :  "Closely  related  to  the  movements  that  occupy  our 
thought  is  one  which  in  the  United  States  has  been  worked  out  to  an 
assured  success,  and  that  is  co-education.  It  is  my  deliberate  convic- 
tion that  for  the  hysteria  into  which  so  many  men  and  women  novelists 
have  fallen,  and  for  the  keyed-up  public  mind  that  is  willing  to  exploit 
their  product,  there  is  no  remedy  so  sane  and  sound  as  the  education  of 
our  young  people  together,  from  the  kindergarten  until  they  complete 
their  course  in  technical  or  professional  schools.  If  anybody  dared  to 
speak  the  truth  about  boys'  public  schools  in  England,  there  would  be  a 
social  convulsion  compared  with  which  not  even  the  lamentable  disclos- 
ures of  the  past  winter  are  to  be  mentioned.  When  we  try  to  segregate 
girls  and  women  into  school  or  harem,  boys  or  men  into  school  or  gov- 
ernment, we  have  frustrated  God's  grace,  and  we  must  pay  the  penalty." 


HENRIETTA    HALL. 


The  VonAN'S  Educational  Association. 


The  admission  of  women  to  all  departments  of  the  university 
awakened  greater  interest  in  the  education  of  young  women  among  the 
patrons  of  the  college  generally  and  especially  among  the  women  them- 
selves.    A  more  rational  conception  of  the  education  of  women  and  of  the 


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importance  of  the  higher  education  was  held.  This  took  definite  form 
in  1874  in  the  organization  of  the  Woman's  Educational  Association 
of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  The  object  of  the  organization 
is  set  forth  in  the  annual  catalogue  of  the  university  of  that  year; 

•The  right  of  this  society  to  exist  may  be  explained  in  a  few  words. 
Women  being  admitted  to  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  the  authori- 
ties have  indicated  their  wish  to  place  in  the  board  of  instruction  com- 
petent women  as  professors.  In  view  of  this,  many  of  the  friends  of  the 
institution  have  deemed  it  proper  to  express  their  approval,  by  liberally 
endowing  at  least  one  chair.  The  reasons  for  endowing  this  chair  are: 
First,  the  need  of  more  funds  for  the  adequate  support  of  professors ; 
secondly,  the  establishing  of  this  woman's  professorship  beyond  all  con- 
tingency, for  all  time  to  come.  Accordingly,  on  the  3d  of  June,  1874, 
with  the  approval  of  the  executive  board  of  the  university,  a  society  was 
formed,  and  the  necessary  officers  were  appointed :  and  it  was  subse- 
quently approved  by  the  board  of  trustees  and  visitors. 

Objects.-  The  objects  of  this  society  are:  First,  the  endowment 
of  a  Woman's  Professorship:  and  secondly,  the  raising  of  a  fund  to  pro- 
vide a  home,  and  assist  young  women  to  educate  themselves — especially 
such  as  are  preparing  to  teach,  or  are  called  to  missionary  work. 

Plans.  Terms,  etc. — Gifts  for  these  objects  may  be  made  accord- 
ing to  the  wishes  of  the  donors. 

For  ten  dollars  a  year  a  woman  may  become  a  member. 

For  ten  dollars  per  year,  for  five  years,  a  life  member. 

For  five  hundred  dollars,  a  life  manager. 

For  one  thousand  dollars,  a  life  patron. 

By  the  payment  of  appropriate  amounts,  gentlemen  may  become 
nonorary  members,  life  managers,  or  life  patrons. 

Gifts  may  be  made  on  terms  and  time  to  suit  donors.  " 

The    association  at   once  opened  a  boarding  hall  under   the  direc- 


tion of  Mrs.  C.  A.  Hart  as  superintendent.  "In  September.  1875,  the 
association  leased  the  building  known  as  'Major's  College,'  and  opened 
a  ladies'  boarding  hall  on  the  Mt.  Holyoke  plan,  and  thus  put  in  practice 
its  second  object,  namely:  the  establishment  of  a  Christian  home  where 
young  ladies  of  any  denomination,  desiring  to  educate  themselves,  can 
have  board  at  the  lowest  possible  rates." 

Subsequently  the  association  purchased  the  ••  Major's  College  " 
property,  which  consisted  of  a  beautiful  block  of  nearly  three  acres  and 
the  college  building.  In  1884  Charles  and  Henrietta  Cramp  gave  four 
thousand  dollars  to  liquidate  the  indebtedness  on  the  property.  The 
association,  however,  agreed  to  pay  them  an  annuity  on  the  amount 
during  the  natural  lives  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cramp,  The  hall  was  after- 
wards known  as  Henrietta  Hall  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Cramp.  It  was  under- 
stood, also,  that  the  Cramp  fund,  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  book, 
should  apply,  when  available,  upon  the  endowment  of  the  professorship 
selected  by  the  association. 

Several  thousand  dollars  were  expended  in  remodeling,  repairing 
and  finishing  the  hall:  thirteen  hundred  twenty-three  were  raised  toward 
an  endowm.ent  of  a  chair  which  was  to  be  selected  when  the  am.cunt 
reached  five  thousand  dollars. 

The  ladies  most  active  in  the  work  of  the  association  were  Mrs. 
Prof.  Jacques,  Mrs.  Jennie  Fowler  Willing,  who  for  a  short  time  was 
professor  in  the  institution,  Mrs.  Sue  M,  D.  Fry,  Mrs.  A.  R.  Riggs,  Mrs. 
Olgah  Updegraff,  Miss  Sarah  Raymond,  Mrs,  Jackman  and  other  elect 
women  of  Bloomington,  who  ungrudgingly  for  years  gave  time,  energy, 
substance  and  devout  prayers  unto  God  for  the  advancement  of  the 
object  of  tfe  association.  For  a  number  of  years,  Mrs.  Fry,  the  only 
woman  on  the  faculty  of  the  college  of  letters,  lived  in  the  hall  and  was 
the  wise  and  accomplished  head  of  the  Christian  home.  The  capacity 
of  the  hall  to  accommodate  young  women  was  fairly  taxed   for  some 


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time  and  the  women  of  the  association  deserved  the   congratulations  of 
the  trustees  and  public  upon  the  success  of  their  enterprise. 

After  a  few  years,  the  building  being  old  and  not  susceptible  of  easy 
convertion  into  a  hall  after  the  ideas  of  modern  architecture  and  ap- 
pointments, the  expenses  became  heavy  on  account  of  repairs.  Mrs. 
Fry,  whose  presence  was  an  essential  factor  in  the  home  life,  no  longer 
lived  in  the  hall,  young  women  ceased  to  desire  to  board  there,  and  as 
the  success  of  the  boarding  hall  depended  upon  attendance  by  young 
women,  the  association  finally  disbanded  in  1892.  the  hall  having  been 


virtually  abandoned  by  the  association  as  a  home  some  time  before. 
Before  the  association  disbanded,  however,  its  property  and  obliga- 
tions were  turned  over  to  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  university.  The 
old  building  has  been  torn  down  and  the  campus  platted  and  accepted 
by  the  city  as  the  Wesleyan  subdivision  of  the  city  of  Bloomington,  and 
the  lots  are  now  being  sold.  Plans  are  being  formed  for  a  new  hall  to 
be  erected  in  the  spring  and  summer  of  1896.  A  photogravure  of  the 
perspective  view  is  shewn  above.  The  estimiated  cost  of  the  building  is 
fifteen  thousand  dollars,  exclusive  of  furniture. 


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HISIVHICAL  SKhlCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD, 


The  College  of  Law. 


The  Law  Department  of  the  University  was  organized  and  put  in 
operation  April  1.  1874.  by  Judge  R.  M.  Benjamin  and  Owen  T.  Reeves. 
The  first  class  was  graduated  in  June.  1875.  consisting  of  seven  mem- 
bers. Among  the  early  instructors  in  this  department,  beside  the  per- 
sons above  named,  were  the  Hon.  Robert  E.  Williams  and  Judge 
Lawrence  Weldon. 

In  this  department,  the  method  of  teaching  law  mainly  by  daily 
recitations  from  approved  text-books,  accompanied  by  familiar  exposi- 
tions and  pertinent  references  to  reported  cases  and  the  statutes  of  the 
State,  was  first  introduced.  This  method  of  instruction  proved  highly 
satisfactory  in  its  results  and  attracted  marked  attention,  to  such  an 
extent  that  now  in  most  if  not  all  the  law  schools  of  the  country  the 
method  has  come  into  partial  use.  In  this  department,  this  method  of 
instruction  has  grown  in  favor  with  the  bench  and  bar.  as  well  as 
in  the  estimation  of  the  students,  and  the  high  standing  of  the  de- 
partment has  been  gained  largely  by  its  method  of  teaching,  combined 
with  the  efficiency  of  its  corps  of  instructors. 

Nearly  three  hundred  students  have  been  graduated  since  the  de- 
partment was  organized,  many  of  whom  are  now  occupying  leading 
positions  at  the  bar.  and  some,  important  judicial  positions.  Judge  Reu- 
ben M.  Benjamin  was  the  dean  of  the  department  from  its  organization 
to  June.  1891,  and  was  succeeded  on  his  voluntary  retirement  by  the 
present  dean.  Owen  T.  Reeves. 

Beside  the  dean  and  Judge  Benjamin,  the  faculty  consists  of  Judge 
Colin  D.  Myers,  John  J.  Morrissey,  Jacob  P.  Lindley  and  Rolland  A. 
Russell,  ail  graduates  of  the  department  and  thoroughly  competent  in- 
structors.   Judge  John  M.  Scott,  ex-chief  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of 


the  State,  has  rendered  the  department  valuable  service  by  delivering 
each  year  a  course  of  most  interesting  lectures  to  the  students,  judge 
Lawrence  Weldon.  an  early  instructor,  has  also  delighted  the  students 
each  year  with  a  course  of  lectures  of  great  interest. 

The  attendance  of  students  in  this  department  has  steadily  increased 
of  late  years,  and  the  department  promises  increased  usefulness  in  the 
thorough  preparation  of  young  men  for  the  legal  profession. 


Non-resident  a/md  Gf?aduate  DEFARTnE/MT. 


Under  the  inspiration  and  guidance  of  President  Fallows,  the  uni- 
versity, in  1874,  arranged  a  series  of  courses  for  non-resident  students, 
looking  toward  the  earning  of  the  degrees  of  Ph.  B..  M.  A.,  and  Ph.  D. 
The  object  of  this  step  was  to  furnish  lines  of  systematic  study  for  those 
professional  men  and  women  whose  duties  and  environments  are  such 
as  to  make  a  resident  course  of  study  an  impossibility,  and  yet  who 
earnestly  desire  systematic  study. 

The  department  was  placed  in  charge  of  Prof.  Jacques,  and  the 
fees  were  set  at  $25  for  the  Ph.  B.  course,  and  $30  for  the  Ph.  D. 
course.  The  first  student  to  enroll  was  Rev.  G.  G.  Roberts,  of  Mohawk 
Valley,  Ohio,  on  October  3,  1874.  During  the  first  eight  years  of  its 
existence  enrollm.ents  were  not  numerous,  averaging  six  a  year  for  the 
first  five  years. 

After  being  in  control  for  a  couple  of  years.  Prof.  Jacques  gave  way 
to  Prof.  Crow,  and  the  latter  seems  to  have  remained  in  charge  until 
1882,  when  Prof.  C.  M.  Moss,  now  of  the  University  of  Illinois,  was  made 
dean.  At  once  the  enthusiasm  and  energy  of  the  new  dean  manifested 
themselves  in  decided  improvement  of  the  courses  and  in  greatly  in- 
creased  enrollment.     A  Canadian  branch  was  established  by  him,  and 


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Rev.  Dr.  Francis  R.  Beattie,  of  Bradford.  Ontario,  was  placed  in  charge. 
to  be  succeeded  a  few  years  later,  on  the  removal  of  Dr.  Beattie  from 
Canada,  by  Dr.  T.  M.  Maclntyre,  president  of  the  Presbyterian  Female 
College  at  Toronto,  who  still  has  control  there.  Shortly  after  establish- 
ing the  Canadian  course,  Dr.  Moss  also  established  an  English  depart- 
ment, placing  it  under  the  supervision  of  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Fennemore. 
at  present  of  Hastings,  England.  The  latter  department  has  met  with  a 
fair  degree  of  success,  and  the  Canadian  department  has  been,  and  is 
now.  remarkably  prosperous,  there  being  over  sixty  strong,  earnest  stu- 
dents of  that  country  actively  pursuing  the  work. 

In  the  spring  of  1891.  the  connection  of  Dr.  Moss  with  the  univer- 
sity being  severed.  Dr.  R.  O.  Graham,  the  present  dean,  was  chosen  to 
take  his  place.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  prosperity  and  success 
of  the  department  has  been  as  great  under  the  present  administration  as 
during  any  previous  period.  The  courses  of  study  have  been  thoroughly 
revised  and  systematized,  and  the  standards  of  requirements  for  entrance 
and  for  graduation  have  been  greatly  advanced.  Nearly  one  hundred 
matriculates  enter  the  courses  every  year,  and  over  four  hundred  mature, 
earnest  and  talented  men  and  women  are  today  taking  advantage  of  the 
opportunities  offered  thereby  for  pursuing  a  thorough  and  systematic 
course  of  study  at  home,  knowing  that  rigid  examinations  will  test  the 
thoroughness  of  their  work.  The  majority  of  these  students  are  teachers, 
who  have  been  for  years  in  the  class-room  and  who  have  learned  the 
need  of  advancement  beyond  the  field  covered  by  the  normal  schools, 
of  which  most  of  them  are  graduates.  As  none  who  have  not  already 
reached  the  age  of  twenty-four  years  can  enter  upon  any  of  the  courses, 
and  few  indeed  beyond  that  age  ever  undertake  a  resident  course,  the 
department  interferes  in  no  way  with  resident  work,  and  both  dean  and 
faculty  always  encourage  those  who  come  within  the  circle  of  their  influ- 
ence to  enter  upon  resident  study,  here  or  in  some  other  good  college. 


rather  than  upon  a  course  of  home  study.  However,  the  letters  that 
come  to  them  from  scores  of  students  whose  way  to  resident  work  had 
been  completely  barred,  have  convinced  those  in  charge  that  great  good 
is  being  accomplished  by  the  department,  and  that  no  other  plan  as  yet 
proposed  is  so  successfully  and  satisfactorily  meeting  the  needs  of  this 
large  and  worthy  body  of  students,  against  whom  the  gates  of  the  college 
world  have  been  closed. 


The   Pf=?EFARATORT    Departhent. 


From  the  beginning  the  university  has  maintained  a  Preparato-y 
Department.  With  the  exception  of  the  two  years.  1865-7.  when  Rev. 
William  R.  Goodwin  was  principal,  this  department  was  under  the  gen- 
eral direction  of  the  faculty  until  1883.  when,  by  action  of  the  board  of 
trustees,  it  was  organized  into  a  distinct  school,  and  Rev.  Hyre  D.  Clark 
was  chosen  principal. 

Since  that  time  its  courses  have  been  definitely  set  forth  and  so 
strengthened  that  its  curricula  now  comprises  four  year's  work  and 
several  courses  leading  to  corresponding  courses  in  the  College  of 
Letters  and  Science. 

The  department  has  been  an  important  factor  in  the  work  of  the 
institution,  many  of  her  most  eminent  graduates  having  been  enrolled 
among  its  students. 

Within  recent  years  the  board  has  given  much  attention  to  this 
school  and  has  so  equipped  it  that  it  now  ranks  among  the  foremost 
preparatory  schools  of  the  country.  Its  large  patronage  from  its  immie- 
diate  vicinity  indicates  its  efficiency  and  merit.  The  principal  and  three 
assistants  give  their  entire  tim.e  to  this  school,  while  most  of  the  college 
professors  assist  in  their  respective  departments. 


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BIRD  S-EYE  VIEW  OF  THE  CAMPUS. 


ILLINOIS   WESLEY  AN   UNIVERSITY. 


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The  average  enrollment  has  been  163,  with  the  exception  of  the 
year  1893-4,  when  there  was  a  general  financial  depression.  The  en- 
rollment has  increased  each  succeeding  year  for  the  past  six  years,  the 
number  last  year  being  250. 

This  school  will  continue  to  hold  an  important  place  among  the 
departments  of  the  university,  and  will  afford  facilities  for  laying  well  the 
foundation  for  the  intellectual  and  moral  development  of  the  youth  who 
may  come  under  its  influence. 


The  College  Papef^. 


The  first  paper  published  in  connection  with  the  institution  was  the 
Alumni  Journal,  under  the  direction  of  Harvey  C,  DeMotte  and  Bradford 
S.  Potter.  It  was  admirably  conducted  by  these  men,  who  for  so  long 
a  time  were  identified  with  the  university,  from  1870  to  1876,  when  it 
became  known  as  the  Students'  Journal  and  was  conducted  by  the 
literary  societies.  Since  1882  the  journalistic  spirit  of  the  students  has 
been  manifested  in  the  Wesleyan  Bee,  1882-7;  The  Journal,  1885-6, 
George  W.  Sikes,  of  newspaper  fame,  being  its  editor;  at  the  same 
time  The  News,  and  the  Bee,  1 886,  James  Shaw,  editor ;  The  Elite  Jour- 
nal. 1887-92;  The  Athenian,  1890,  Wesleyan  Echo,  1891-4;  and  The 
Argus,  the  present  college  paper. 

From  the  time  of  the  Alumni  Journal.  1876,  to  the  Argus,  the  pub- 
lications, representing  a  society  or  a  faction  in  the  university,  at  no  time 
perhaps  reflected  the  actual  life  of  the  institution,  though  at  times  they 
were  ably  conducted. 

That  the  college  paper  might  be  truly  representative  and  advance 
all  the  interests  of  all  the  students,  in  the  spring  of   1894  the  faculty  in- 


vited seven  representative  students  from  the  junior  and  senior  classes  to 
a  conference  looking  toward  the  organization  of  a  permanent  publishing 
company.  Such  an  organization  was  effected,  and  Clarence  E.  Snyder 
was  appointed  by  the  faculty  as  editor-in-chief.  He  was  ably  assisted  by 
Joseph  K.  P.  Hawks  as  business  manager ;  Frank  A.  McCarty,  literary 
editor;  Ruth  Henry  and  J.  Riggs  Orr,  local  editors;  Irene  Bassett,  ex- 
change editor,  and  Edson  Hart,  subscription  agent.  The  Argus  is  a 
twenty-four  page  paper,  published  bi-weekly  and  in  magazine  form. 
Position  on  the  editorial  staff  is  considered  an  honor,  and  only  juniors 
and  seniors  are  eligible.  For  the  college  year  1895-6  the  staff  is 
Albert  L.  Wood,  editor-in-chief ;  Leslie  Baker,  literary  editor ;  James 
P.  Bicket  and  Ada  Harrison,  local  editors;  Irene  Bassett,  exchange 
editor;  Edson  Hart,  business  manager;  Willard  E.  Wooding,  subscrip- 
tion agent. 


The  University  Press. 


Among  other  improvements  and  additions  made  to  the  university 
the  past  summer,  not  the  least  important  is  the  university  printing  office. 
The  outfit  comprises  an  old-style  Gordon  jobber,  14x20,  run  by  an  elec- 
tric motor,  together  with  a  number  of  fonts  of  handsome  book  type  and 
many  artistic  job  faces,  a  paper  cutter  and  the  other  usual  appurtenances 
of  the  printer's  art. 

The  publishing  com.pany,  to  be  known  as  ••  The  University  Press," 
is  composed  of  members  of  the  faculty,  and  the  office  will  be  conducted 
in  the  interest  of  the  university. 

For  the  mutual  benefit  of  students  and  the  university,  text-books 
and  stationery  will  hereafter  be  kept  on  sale  at  the  university.  The 
books  will  be  sold  at  the  prices  heretofore  current,  and  the  profits  will 
be  devoted  to  the  building  up  of  the  university  library. 


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OUR   FOUNDERS. 


There  are  few  colleges  in  America  that  do  not  represent  sublime 
faith,  most  rigid  economy  and  patient  self-denial  on  the  part  of  their 
founders.  The  law  of  perfection  through  suffering  has  a  two-fold  appli- 
cation, to  the  institution  and  also  to  its  founders.  The  greatest  and  best 
institutions  of  human  society  have  some  chapters  of  keenest  suffering 
and  purest  sacrifice.  The  free  State,  the  free  Church  and  the  Christian 
college  took  root  simultaneously  in  the  soil  of  the  New  World,  and  the 
freedom  of  the  State  has  ever  been  conserved  by  the  college.  Harvard 
rose  at  the  founding  of  a  free  State  by  devout  and  pious  men  who  pro- 
foundly believed  that  their  liberties  would  be  best  perpetuated  to  the 
generations  unborn  by  sanctified  learning. 

This  faith  and  spirit  characterized  the  men  who  tamed  the  wild 
prairies  of  Illinois.  As  at  Plymouth  Rock,  here  the  Church  preceded 
the  State  and  made  it  possible,  whereupon  the  college  was  conceived  in 
the  throes  of  heroic  sacrifice. 

it  would  have  afforded  the  editor  purest  pleasure  to  have  presented 
the  portraits  of  all  these  chief  actors  in  the  birth  throes  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University,  but  acceptable  photographs  of  some  of  the  most 
worthy  were  not  to  be  obtained. 

COL.  JAMES  ALLIN. 

The  man  most  actively  identified  with  the  organization  of  McLean 
county,  who  gave  Bloomington  its  name  and  gave  the  land  upon  which 
the  original  town  was  built,  who  was  also  identified  with  the  first  move- 
ment to  establish  the  university  and  contributed  largely  to  its  success, 
was  Col.  James  Allin. 


Born  in  North  Carolina  in  1788,  he  settled  at  Edwardsville,  Illinois, 
in  1819,  having  spent  several  years  of  his  youth  in  Kentucky.  In  1821 
he  removed  to  Vandalia,  Illinois,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until 
1829,  when  he  removed  to  what  was  known  as  Blooming  Grove,  now 
Bloomington,  where  he  resided  until  the  time  of  his  death  in  1869. 
Upon  his  arrival  at  Blooming  Grove  he  erected  a  double -log  house,  one 
end  of  which  he  used  for  a  residence  and  the  other  for  a  store. 

In  1831  he  was  influential  in  securing  the  organization  of  McLean 
county,  gave  twenty-two  and  one-half  acres  of  land  at  the  north  end  of 
Blooming  Grove  for  a  site  for  the  county  seat  of  the  new  county,  and 
named  the  new  town  Bloomington. 

He  was  a  man  upright  in  character,  far-sighted  in  business,  public- 
spirited,  and  posessed  of  many  elements  of  popularity  and  real  leader- 
ship. He  was  elected  State  Senator  in  1836,  and  later  served  another 
term.  He  was  one  of  the  earliest  promoters  of  the  university,  and  car- 
ried into  his  duties  as  trustee  the  zeal  and  enthusiasm  which  character- 
ized his  efforts  in  founding  the  city.  His  public  spirit  and  liberality 
perhaps  prevented  him  from  improving  the  opportunity  to  accumulate 
a  fortune,  and  he  died  comparatively  poor  but  universally  respected, 
with  the  conciousness  that  he  had  served  well  his  day  and  gene- 
ration. 

An  im.perious  will  enabled  him  to  succeed  where  others  failed,  and 
to  live  when  others  died.  It  is  related  of  him  that  when  so  critically  ill 
as  to  have  called  a  council  of  physicians,  and  noting  their  solemn  tones 
and  despair  written  in  their  countenances  he  said:  '■  I  know  what  your 
decision  is.  It  is  that  I  am  going  to  die;  but  I  won't  die."  And  recover 
he  did.  At  another  time,  when  his  son  William  was  very  ill  and  it  was 
thought  that  he  could  not  live,  James  said  to  him;  William,  I  would 
not  die  if  I  were  you;  I  would  not  give  way."  Indomitable  will  may 
inspire  another  to  successes  otherwise  impossible. 


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WILLIAM   H.   ALLIN. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  has  been  described  as  a  "  man  of  medium 
size,  slenderly  built,  healthy  complexion,  rather  light  hair,  sharp-pointed 
nose  and  dark,  penetrating  eyes.  He  was  very  polite  in  his  manner, 
and  was  a  favorite  with  all  with  whom  he  had  to  do." 

He  was  a  son  of  James  Allin,  and  assisted,  as  did  his  father,  in  the 
organization  of  the  university  as  a  trustee.  He  was  a  thoroughly  honest 
man,  according  to  the  testimony  of  those  who  knew  him,  and  was  intel- 
ligent, discreet  and  energetic  in  business  and  a  staunch  supporter  of  the 
university, 

HON.   JAMES   MILLER. 

James  Miller  whose  grandfather  was  a  Presbyterian  minister  in 
Ireland,  was  born  of  Scotch-Irish  parents,  1795,  in  Rockingham  county, 
Virginia.  In  1811  his  parents  moved  to  Madison  county.  Kentucky, 
where  jamas  grew  to  manhood  and  entered  business.  His  education 
had  been  with  a  view  to  farming  as  an  occupation,  but  manifesting  de- 
cided taste  and  talent  for  trade,  he  became  a  most  successful  merchant, 
being  associated  with  John  Magoun  in  1835  and  later  with  John  E. 
McClun,  in  the  city  of  Bloomington. 

At  the  early  age  of  twenty  he  performed  the  responsible  duties  of 
the  office  of  collector  and  sheriff.  Though  born  and  educated  in  a 
slave-holding  community,  he  was  not  in  sympathy  with  the  institution  of 
African  slavery,  and  determined  not  to  bring  up  his  children  in  a  pro- 
slavery  atmosphere.  Accordingly  he  came  to  Bloomington.  Illinois,  in 
1835.  and  invested  largely  in  land.  He  was  prominently  identified  with 
the  chief  enterprises  which  contributed  to  the  development  of  the 
county  and  city.  His  ability  and  integrity  were  recognized  by  the  people 
of  the  State,  who  elected  him  to  the  high  office  of  treasurer  in  1856, 
and   so  efficiently  did  he  fulfill  the  trust  reposed   in  him.  that  he  was 


elected  to  succeed  himself  in  1858.  He  honored  his  office  and  State. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  he  became  an  avowed  Christian,  and,  though 
his  environment,  socially,  commercially  and  politically,  prompted  to  a 
different  course,  he  united  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  to 
which  he  adhered  until  his  death,  1872.  If  the  testimonies  of  those 
who  knew  him  are  trustworthy,  he  honored  the  church  by  his  member- 
ship, and  adorned  the  doctrine  of  Jesus  Christ.  During  his  long  and 
useful  life  he  held  perhaps  all  the  offices  in  the  church  to  which  laymen 
were  eligible  in  his  day,  and  in  them  all  was  respected,  zealous,  faithful. 
and  efficient.  He  was  especially  active  in  the  organization  of  the  uni- 
versity, and  was  one  of  its  chief  founders. 

JOHN    MAGOUN. 

John  Magoun  was  born  June  14.  1806.  in  Plymouth  county.  Massa- 
chusetts, of  a  most  respectable  family,  whose  first  American  ancestor 
was  John  Magoun.  a  free-holder  in  Massachusetts  in  1666.  Left  father- 
less in  his  teens,  young  John  went  to  Boston,  where  he  alternated 
between  teaching  school  in  the  winter  and  working  at  the  mason's  trade 
in  summer,  which  trade  he  learned  thoroughly   and  practiced  honestly. 

In  1835  he  came  west,  and  in  1836  joined  the  Hudson  colony. 
that  entered  twenty  sections  of  land  ten  miles  north  of  Bloomington. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  worked  at  his  trade,  and  assisted  in  laying  the 
brick  of  the  first  court  house  building  in  McLean  county.  For  a  short 
time  he  engaged  in  business  with  James  Miller  at  Clinton.  Illinois,  and 
then  later  with  Judge  John  E.  McClun,  at  Bloomington,  and  later  still 
with  McClun  and  others  in  the  banking  business,  becoming  a  partner  in 
the  People's  Bank.  He  was  a  man  of  fine  business  ability  and  accumu- 
lated considerable  property,  which  he  used  more  for  the  benefit  of  the 
public  than  to  gratify  any  selfish  desires.  He  was  a  devoted  Christian 
and  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  was  fully  identified 


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with  the  university  from   its  inception  to  the  day  of  his  death  in  1878. 

Though  unmarried,  he  was  a  true  lover  of  humanity,  and  was  in- 
variably affable  and  courteous  in  his  dealings  with  his  fellow- men. 
Deserved  kind  words  are  too  often  unspoken  until  after  death  has  claimed 
those  deserving  them,  but  it  was  written  of  Magoun  while  he  was  yet 
living:  "  Few  men  have  lived  in  any  community  so  distinguished  for 
kindness  of  heart,  for  charity  and  purity  of  life  ;  gentleness  of  spirit  and 
kindness  of  heart  were  characteristics  of  his  entire  life.  No  man  ever 
lived  whose  heart  has  been  more  warm  and  open  to  the  wants  of  the 
poor:  crowds  of  the  distressed  and  destitute  have  always  waited  upon 
him.  and  the  worthy  and  needy  applicant  has  never  been  turned  away 
empty.  Eyes  has  he  been  to  the  blind,  and  feet  to  the  lame  :  he  has 
been  a  father  to  the  poor,  and  the  cause  which  he  knew  not  he  has 
sought  out.  He  has  sought  neither  honor  nor  position  in  the  world,  but 
has  striven  only  to  do  good  and  make  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact 
happier  and  better." 

I  doubt  not  these  words  truly  characterize  John  Magoun.  He 
seems  to  have  been  a  veritable  living  Greatheart  to  the  multitudes  of 
imfXDtent,  and,  at  the  same  time,  a  prince  among  the  most  stalwart  men. 

In  business,  misfortune  overtook  him  in  the  failure  of  the  People's 
bank  in  1876.  which  was  so  disastrous  to  many  patrons  of  the  university. 
While  his  prosperity  was  swept  away  and  he  was  left  practically  penni- 
less, he  bequeathed  to  the  world  the  memory  of  a  spotless  character 
and  built  for  himself  the  most  enduring  monument  in  the  lives  enriched 
by  deeds  of  kindness  and  mercy,  and  gifts  to  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity which  will  forever  cherish  and  perpetuate  the  memory  of  his 
gentle  and  manly  spirit  and  his  truly  Christian  life.  His  personal  influ- 
ence, discriminating  judgment  and  liberality  contributed  largely  to  the 
life  and  growth  of  the  university,  and  will  cause  him  to  be  remembered 
when  others  who  amassed  princely  fortunes  are  forgotten. 


JOHN    EDWARD    M  CLUN. 

John  Edward  McClun  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  having  been  born 
in  Frederick  county,  1812.  His  father  was  a  devout  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  and  his  maternal  grandfather  was  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  the  Revolution,  and  yielded  up  his  life  as  a  sacrifice  in  the  cause 

of  American  Independence.  John 
was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  seven 
children,  all  boys,  and  was  left  to  the 
care  of  his  mother  when  but  a  child, 
his  father  having  died  when  John 
was  about  eight  years  old.  Of  his 
mother  he  said:  "If  1  have  any- 
thing commendable  in  my  character, 
I  certainly  owe  it  all  under  God  to 
my  mother.  She  taught  me  to  be 
honest,  and  I  have  tried  so  to  live; 
she  taught  me  always  to  be  employed 
at  something,  and  1  have  tried  to  be 
industrious;  she  taught  me  to  speak 
evil  of  no  man  or  woman  so  far  as  I 
could  avoid  it,  and  the  observance  of 
that  rule  has  wonderfully  smoothed 
the  asperities  of  my  life  ;  she  taught 
me  the  fear  of  the  Lord,  and  1  have 
JOHN  E.  m'clun  always  been  able  to  realize  through 

a  long  life  that  God  was  around  and  about  my  pathway." 

If  the  testimony  of  the  books  was  not  accessible,  the  world  had 
abundant  evidence  to  believe  that  Judge  John  E.  McClun  was  born  well 
and  received  good  instruction  in  childhood.  Blessed  is  the  child  of 
such  a  mother! 


ILLINOIS    WESLEY  AN    UNIVERSITY. 


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His  advantages  for  an  education  were  exceedingly  limited,  yet  by 
diligent  application  he  became  a  fair  scholar,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  he 
was  able  to  teach  a  respectable  school  which  he  did  for  three  years, 
when  he  determined  to  go  west.  In  June.  1836.  he  entered  the  store  of 
David  Duncan  as  clerk  at  Waynesville,  Illinois,  where  he  remained  until 
the  spring  of  1837.  when  he  went  into  the  mercantile  business  on  his 
own  account  at  Bloomington.  He  prospered  in  business  and  was  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  McLean  county's  most  substantial  citizens.  From 
1842  to  1846.  he  was  under  contract  with  the  government  to  conduct 
all  mail  routes  passing  through  Bloomington;  from  1849  to  1852  he 
served  as  county  judge;  from.  1852  to  1857  he  served  his  district  in  the 
legislature  of  the  State,  and  was  a  member  of  the  State  board  of  agri- 
culture. In  politics  he  was  an  old  line  Whig  and  naturally  a  Republican 
until  1872.  when  he  supported  his  friend  and  neighbor.  Judge  David 
Davis,  as  a  Liberal  Republican  in  his  candidacy  for  the  nomination  for 
president. 

He  was  a  devout  Christian  and  active  member  of  the  First  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  church,  serving  it  in  the  capacity  of  class-leader,  steward, 
trustee  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school  for  twenty  years.  He 
took  a  deep  interest  in  the  organization  of  the  university,  and  as  trustee 
gave  it  intelligent  and  efficient  service  as  long  as  he  lived.  His  gifts 
were  liberal  and  well  timed,  his  faith  in  the  possibilities  of  the  institution 
great,  and  his  devotion  to  its  interests  constant. 

JONATHAN  TOTTEN. 

Jonathan  Totten  was  born  in  1821.  in  Morris  county.  New  Jersey; 
died  in  Bement.  Illinois,  April  3,  1894,  He  was  married  to  Maria 
Schureman  in  1843,  and  ten  years  later  settled  in  the  vicinity  of  what 
is  now  Green  Valley,  Tazewell  county,  Illinois.  Here  he  lived  for  thirty 
years,  during  which  time,  by  unremitting  industry,  strict  economy  and 


moral  integrity  he  acquired  a  competency.  He  was  an  earnest  and  in- 
telligent Christian  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
and  was  largely  instrumental  in  the  establishment  of  the  church  in  Green 
Valley,  to  which  he  bequeathed  the  sum  of  $2,000,  the  principal  to  be 
intact  and  the  interest  available  perpetually.  Inspired  by  Dr.  Buck's 
first  generous  gift  of  $12,500  to  the  endowment  fund  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University,  Mr.  Totten,  after  a  conversation  with  Dr.  Buck. 
set  apart  the  sum  of  $6,000  to  go  toward  the  endowment  of  a  chair  of 
Natural  Science  in  the  university,  which  sum  has  been  turned  over  to 
the  trustees  by  his  executor.  Like  a  good  steward,  he  has  thus  invested 
his  Lord's  money  where  it  will  go  on  blessing  the  world  through  genera- 
tions to  come. 

JESSE  E.  BURCH,  TRUSTEE  AND  TREASURER. 

In  1850  a  young  man  of  quiet  demeanor,  intelligent,  well  educated 
and  devout,  entered  the  city  of  Bloomington  and  began  the  practice  of 
law.  He  had  been  graduated  from  Asbury  College,  Greencastle,  Indi- 
ana, some  few  years  before,  and,  fully  appreciating  the  value  of  a  Chris- 
tian college  to  the  Church  and  State,  he  soon  became  deeply  interested 
in  the  effort  to  establish  the  Illinois  Wesleyan.  Well  poised  in  mind, 
suave  in  manner,  manly,  dignified  and  scrupulously  honest  in  his  rela- 
tions with  men,  and  consistent,  earnest  and  sincere  as  a  Christian,  he 
became  a  wise  counsellor  to  the  university  as  trustee,  and  a  valuable 
and  trusted  treasurer,  in  which  capacity  he  served  the  institution  until  his 
death  in  1876.     Such  is  our  recollection  of  Jesse  Burch. 

It  was  said  that  he  was  an  excellent  office  lawyer  though  he  never 
accumulated  riches.  His  most  valuable  services  to  the  university  did 
not  consist  of  gifts  of  money  but  rather  of  faithful  and  disinterested  zeal 
in  caring  for  its  funds  and  contributing  that  kind  of  service  so  essential 
to  its  life  that  money  cannot  buy. 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH    AND    ALUMNI   RECORD. 


Charles  V.  C.  Humsell. 

FrNAMCIAL  AceNTOF  THE:  UNIVERSITY   FROM 
1857    TO   IS73. 

Judge  Reeves  says  truthfully  that  for 
many  years  in  the  critical  period  in  the 
history  of  the  university.  Rev.  Charles 
W.  C.  Munsell  devoted  most  intelligent 
and  unremitting  attention  to  its  financial 
interest,  and  the  university  is  indebted  to 
him  largely  for  its  financial  prosperity. 

Charles  W.  C.  Munsell  was  born  in  Ohio 
in  1822.  and  came  to  Illinois  in  1832.  In 
childhood  he  began  to  lay  the  foundation 
of  that  education  which  served  him  so 
well  as  financial  agent  of  the  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan  University  during  the  years  of  severe 
labor  for  successful  birth.  Before  he  was 
twelve  years  of  age.  he  was  employed  in  a 
store  and  counting-room,  and  by  the  time 
he  reached  young  manhood  was  thoroughly 
versed  in  the  forms  and  methods  of  busi- 
ness. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  ministry  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  the  Illinois 
Conference  in  1846.  He  served  succes- 
sively and  successfully  Shelby ville  Circuit, 
Shawneetown.  Georgetown  Circuit,  Mar- 
shall, and  Danville.  In  these  charges  he 
met  with  great  success,  especially  in  look- 


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While  at  Danville  in  1850.  he  became 
much  interested  in  the  educational  enter- 
prises of  the  church  and  raised  the  funds 
necessary  for  establishing  the  Danville 
Seminary,  which  for  a  number  of  yeais 
was  an  important  school  in  Eastern  Illi- 
nois. He  was  also  chiefly  instrumental 
in  raising  funds  for  the  Shelbyville  Semi- 
nary, which  for  fifteen  years  was  one  of 
our  chief  schools.  In  1856  he  was  elected 
trustee  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University 
and  appointed  its  financial  agent  by  Bishop 
Simpson.  This  year  marks  the  beginning 
of  a  task  which  required  tact,  zeal,  faith 
in  a  large  measure  in  man,  in  God,  and  in 
His  cause.  The  monetary  panic  of  1857 
and  the  distraction  of  the  Civil  War  made 
the  task  a  most  difficult  one.  The  school 
was  without  money,  without  buildings,  save 
the  mere  walls  of  the  first  structure  reared 
on  the  present  campus,  and  in  debt  $4,200, 
on  which  the  trustees  were  paying  twenty- 
two  per  cent  interest.  It  had  been  sus- 
pended, its  local  friends  disheartened,  and, 
but  for  the  faith  and  skill  of  Charles  W.  C. 
Munsell  and  his  brother,  who  at  that  time 
was  chosen  president,  it  could  never  have 
met  its  obligations.  Agent  Munsell  found 
a  few  old  notes  and  other  scholarship  notes 
of  three  or   four  varieties,   which   if   met 


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would  not  aggregate  half  enough  to  meet  the  outstanding  obligations. 
An  attempt  had  been  made  to  raise  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  ten 
annual  installments,  but  nothing  was  binding  until  half  the  amount  was 
secured  which  would  make  good  the  first  five  installments  subscribed  : 
but  this  condition  proved  to  be  a  fatal  defect  in  the  subscriptions,  few  of 
which  were  ever  paid.  Many  friends  had  been  alienated  because  they 
had  been  sued  by  the  contractors  on  notes  turned  over  to  them.  De- 
spair seemed  to  settle  down  upon  all  but  the  Munsell  Brothers  and  a  few 
faithful  men  in  Bloomington.  In  1864.  at  the  time  the  fifth  installment 
of  the  subscriptions  became  due,  a  crisis  was  reached.  Mr.  Munsell 
called  the  creditors  together,  stated  the  facts  and  proposed  to  go  to  the 
individual  subscribers  and  ask  them  to  pay  as  large  amount  as  possible 
of  their  subscriptions  on  short  time  on  the  simple  condition  that  the 
entire  debt  was  cancelled  by  a  given  date.  The  creditors  accepted  the 
proposition,  as  did  many  of  the  subscribers,  and  in  July,  1864,  the  debts 
were  canceled,  the  creditors  were  paid  principal  and  interest,  but  nothing 
was  left  of  the  old  assets  except  three  or  four  notes  that  never  were 
collected. 

In  1866,  Mr.  Munsell  was  largely  instrumental  in  awakening  an  in- 
terest in  an  offering  to  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  it  being  the 
centennial  year  of  Methodism.  It  was  under  the  inspiration  of  these 
offerings  and  the  prosperous  condition  of  the  school  so  far  as  attendance 
was  concerned,  that  the  main  building  was  projected,  toward  the  comple- 
tion of  which  Mr.  Munsell  contributed  a  large  share.  Too  great  praise 
cannot  be  given  Mr.  Munsell  for  his  intelligent  and  self-sacrificing  prose- 
cution of  this  great  work,  especially  when  we  remember  that  for  ten 
years  he  labored  wholly  at  his  own  expense,  not  receiving  compensation 
for  correspondence  or  traveling  expenses,  and  for  fifteen  years  without  a 
salary.  Mr.  Munsell  is  a  man  of  fine  sensibilities,  unassuming  and 
modest  in  m.anner,  and  pure  in  private  and  public  life. 


LUCY    ABIGAIL    WILLIAMS. 

Miss  Lucy  Abigail  Williams,  one  of  the  elect  women  of  the  nine- 
teenth century,  and  a  patron  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  was 
born  in  Vermont  in  1816.  and  died  near  Pittsfield,  Illinois,  in. 1893. 
Having  secured  a  good  academic  education,  she  taught  school  in  Troy. 
New  York,  and  in  Illinois  for  several  years  after  emigrating  to  that  State 
with  her  parents  in  1838.  In  1874  she  was  left  without  relatives  and 
alone  with  the  management  of  an  estate  which  would  have  been  large 
but  for  her  generous  nature.  This  she  managed  with  great  skill  and 
ability,  while  her  benefactions  were  numerous,  never  missing  an  oppor- 
tunity to  do  good  both  to  the  souls  and  to  the  bodies  of  men.  She  was 
a  most  generous  supporter  of  all  local  church  and  charitable  enterprises. 
She  gave  also  largely  to  the  connectional  interests  of  the  Methodist 
church,  of  which  she  was  a  member.  She  was  truly  an  elect  woman 
of  God,  and  for  generations  to  come  people  will  remember  her  life,  and 
hold  sacred  her  memory.  Her  last  gift  to  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity was  by  bequest.  $600,  and  a  pro  rata  interest  in  the  residuum 
after  bequests  are  paid.  Her  influence  for  sanctified  learning  is  not  to 
be  measured  by  her  pecuniary  gifts,  though  these  were  not  inconsidera- 
ble. If  one  woman  in  every  ten  in  America  were  such  in  character  and 
action  as  was  Miss  Williams,  the  treasuries  of  charitable  and  benevolent 
institutions  would  be  full,  the  educational  institutions  which  stand  for 
scholarship  and  most  godlike  character  would  be  richly  endowed  with 
millions  of  money  and  equipped  with  buildings,  laboratories,  museums, 
libraries,  and  all  holy  environment  that  money  can  procure. 

For  deep  conviction  of  the  savableness  of  mankind,  faith  in  the 
divinity  and  efficiency  of  the  Christian  religion  to  regenerate  the  race, 
clear  conception  of  her  relation  to  God  as  his  steward,  sympathy  in  the 
presence  of  the  suffering  and  oppressed,  and  power  of  discriminating 
the  merits  of  philanthropic  appeals,  she  was  one  of  a  thousand. 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH   AND    ALUMNI   RECORD, 


Isaac  Funk. 

FOUMDER  or  THE  ISAAC  FUNK  FROFESSOR- 

SMiP  OF  Chemistry  and  Zoolocy. 

Honorable  Isaac  Funk  was  born  of  Ger- 
man parentage  in  1797,  in  Clark  county, 
Kentucky,  in  1823  he  emigrated  to  Illi- 
nois and  entered  a  tract  of  land  at  Funk's 
Grove,  where,  by  industry,  honesty,  and 
self-denial,  he  accumulated  a  vast  fortune, 
and  developed  a  sterling  character  which 
became  widely  known  because  of  his  life 
and  work  in  the  Prairie  State.  Mr.  Funk 
was  blessed  with  good  health,  with  a  pow- 
erful physical  organism  and  an  indomitable 
will.  This  constituted  the  capital  which 
entered  into  his  immense  farm  and  stock 
interests.  He  was  a  man  of  strictest  integ- 
rity, and  valued  his  word  as  highly  as  his 
bond,  saying  often  to  his  boys,  ••  Suffer 
your  right  hand  to  be  cut  off,  but  swear 
not  falsely,  and  keep  your  promises."  He 
was  soon  regarded  by  all  who  knew  him 
not  only  as  strictly  honest,  but  of  such  in- 
defatigable energy  and  indomitable  will, 
that  he  was  capable  of  fulfilling  all  his 
pledges.  With  this  capital  he  did  an  ex- 
tensive business  in  buying  and  selling  stock. 
Often  would  he  agree  to  furnish  so  m.any 
cattle  at  the  Slock  Yards  in  Chicago,  for 


a  certain  price  six  months  or  a  year  later,  when  he  had 


Hon.  Isaac  Funk. 
neither  cattle  nor  money  with  which  to  buy;  then  returning 
to  the  prairies  he  would  buy  cattle  wherever  they  could  be 


found,  giving  his  word  that  they  would  be 
paid  for  at  a  certain  date.  These  he  would 
gather  together  in  herds  and  graze  until 
ready  for  the  market,  when  his  pledges 
were  invariably  redeemed.  Whatever 
profits  were  realized  he  at  once  put  into 
lands,  and  often  when  these  were  too  small 
for  his  ambition  he  bought  land  solely  on 
his  original  capital,  integrity.  At  a  later 
day,  when  money  was  a  little  more  abun- 
dant, he  would  borrow  for  similar  invest- 
ments, and  to  meet  one  of  these  obligations 
upon  an  appointed  day  due  at  Springfield, 
Illinois,  he  sent  $3,000  in  gold  in  saddle- 
bags by  his  son  Jacob,  who  reached  the 
father's  residence  in  McLean  county  at 
12  o'clock  at  night  before  the  payment 
was  due  in  Springfield  the  next  morning, 
when  his  son  George  arose,  saddled  a  fresh 
horse  and  completed  the  journey  in  order 
that  Mr.  Funk's  word  might  be  literally 
redeemed.  This  incident  throws  light  upon 
the  character  of  the  elder  Funk,  and  the 
sons  as  well,  as  many  capitalists  of  today 
would  be  little  concerned  about  so  prompt 
a  redemption  of  a  pledge,  and  many  sons 
woula  be  incapable  of  performing  the  ser- 
vice. 

While  not  educated  after  the  manner  of 
the  schools,  Mr.   Funk   had  a  thoroughly 


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disciplined  mind,  an  extraordinary  memory,  and  an  iron  will,  in  busi- 
ness he  was  both  sagacious  and  far-seeing.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  First  National  bank,  Bloomington,  Illinois,  the  last  paper  he  exe- 
cuted being  the  articles  of  its  organization,  in  January.  1865. 

In  religion,  he  was  a  devout  believer  in  Christianity  and  adhered 
to  the  doctrines  and  polity  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  to 
which  he  rendered  liberal  and  loyal  support.  His  body  lies  in  the 
churchyard  at  Funk's  Grove,  where  a  Methodist  church  stands  as  a 
monument  testifying  to  his  faith  in  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ. 

He  was  an  old  time  Whig  in  politics,  and  served  one  term  in  the 
House  of  Representatives  of  his  State  in  1840,  and  in  1861  he  was 
elected  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  State  Senate,  made  by  the  resignation 
of  General  Oglesby.  who  had  gone  to  the  defense  of  the  Union.  Mr. 
Funk  was  re-elected  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly 
until  his  death  in  1865. 

His  loyalty  to  the  Union  was  intense,  and  often  manifested  itself 
in  the  support  of  the  government  by  speech  and  money.  Nothing  would 
arouse  him  so  quickly  and  stir  him  so  profoundly  as  an  expression  of 
sympathy  with  the  States  in  rebellion,  and  as  occasion  was  often  pre- 
sented during  the  war.  this  strong  passion  did  much  to  awaken  patriotism 
and  disarm  disunion  at  home.    There  is  one  event  worthy  of  record  here. 

In  1863,  while  the  Senate  was  considering  a  bill  having  for  its  ob- 
ject the  aid  of  the  Sanitary  Commission,  Mr.  Funk,  inspired  by  the  love 
of  country,  delivered  in  support  of  the  bill  a  most  telling  speech  whose 
immediate  effects  were  indescribable.  Sympathizers  with  the  Southern 
Confederacy  had  busied  themselves  and  were  exerting  a  powerful  influ- 
ence for  its  defeat,  though  not  outwardly  attacking  the  bill. 

■■Mr.  Speaker:  I  can  sit  in  m.y  seat  no  longer  and  see  such  boys" 
play  going  on.  These  men  are  trifling  with  the  best  interests  of  the 
country.     They  should  have  asses'  ears  to  set  off  their   heads,   or  they 


are  secessionists  and  traitors  at  heart.  I  say  there  are  traitors  and  se- 
cessionists at  heart  in  this  Senate.  Their  actions  prove  it.  Their 
speeches  prove  it.  Their  gibes  and  laughter  and  cheers  here  nightly. 
when  their  speakers  get  up  in  this  hall  and  denounce  the  war  and  the 
administration  prove  it,  *  ■*  *  *  ■* 

■■Mr.  Speaker,  you  must  excuse  me;  I  could  not  sit  longer  in  my 
seat  and  calmly  listen  to  these  traitors.  My  heart,  that  feels  for  my 
poor  country,  would  not  let  me.  My  heart,  that  cries  out  for  the  lives 
of  our  brave  volunteers  in  the  field,  that  these  traitors  at  home  are  de- 
stroying by  the  thousand,  would  not  let  me.  My  heart,  that  bleeds  for 
the  widows  and  orphans  at  home,  would  not  let  me.  Yes,  these  villains 
and  traitors  and  secessionists  in  this  Senate  are  killing  my  neighbors' 
boys  now  fighting  in  the  field.  #  *  #  *  * 

■■*         *  They  should  be  provided  with   hemp  collars.     They 

deserve  them.  They  deserve  hanging.  I  say.  The  country  would  be 
better  off  to  swing  them.  I  go  for  hanging  them,  and  I  dare  to  tell 
them  so  right  here  to  their  traitor  faces.  Traitors  should  be  hung.  It 
"would  be  the  salvation  of  the  country  to  hang  them.  For  that  reason  I 
would  rejoice  at  it. 

■■  Mr.  Speaker,  I  beg  pardon  of  the  gentlemen  in  the  Senate  who 
are  not  traitors,  but  true,  loyal  men,  for  what  I  have  said.  I  only  in- 
tended it  and  mean  it  for  secessionists  at  heart." 

Under  the  influence  of  President  Munsell,  Mr.  Funk  promised  to 
give  $10,000  to  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  His  children  knowing 
of  that  promise,  after  his  death  set  apart  $10,000  for  the  endowment  of 
the  "  Isaac  Funk  Professorship,"  which  was  the  first  attempt  at  the  en- 
dowment of  an  individual  chair. 

If  forgotten  as  a  farmer,  or  citizen,  or  business  man,  or  patriot, 
Hon.  Isaac  Funk  will  go  down  to  a  thousand  generations  as  the  first 
great  benefactor  and  patron  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 


Hiram   Buck. 


ILLINOIS   WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY. 


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HlRAH    BUCt\.  D.  D. 
Trustee  and  Chief  Foumder. 

Among  all  the  friends  and  patrons  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity none  can  be  found  whose  love  for  the  institution  has  been  more  pure 
and  constant,  whose  ambition  for  it  has  been  more  lofty  and  worthy,  or 
whose  gifts  have  done  more  to  awaken  an  interest  in  its  permanent 
growth  and  endowment  than  the  Rev.  Hiram  Buck.  D.  D..  who  for 
many  years  resided  at  Decatur,  Illinois,  and  at  which  place  he  died. 
August  21,  1892.  He  was  born  in  Steuben  county.  New  York,  March 
1,  1819,  and  having  experienced  the  new  birth  of  the  soul  at  Moscow, 
New  York,  in  1836,  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  dedicated  his  life  to  the 
service  of  God  and  humanity,  and  united  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  He  was  admitted  to  the  ministry  of  that  church  in  1843  at  the 
annual  session  of  the  Illinois  Conference  held  at  Quincy.  Illinois,  within 
the  bounds  of  which  conference  he  dedicated  one  hundred  churches  to 
the  worship  oi  Almighty  God,  a  record  that  will  not  be  made  of  another 
man,  no  matter  how  great  his  skill  in  such  services.  His  entire  life 
was  unselfishly  devoted  to  the  church  and  the  special  interests  of  the 
Illinois  Conference,  and  such  devotion  was  rarely  excelled  even  by  the 
pioneer  with  whom  he  was  contemporary.  He  was  at  once  recognized 
as  a  man  of  ability  and  took  high  rank  in  his  conference,  serving  its 
most  important  charges  as  pastor,  and  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-three 
Bishop  Ames  appointed  him  to  the  presiding  eldership  in  which  office 
he  served  twenty-three  of  the  forty-nine  years  of  his  notable  ministry. 

••  He  brought  to  this  office  the  learning  and  eloquence  of  an  able 
preacher,  the  tact  and  skill  of  a  wise  administrator,  and  the  broad  and 
generous  sympathy  of  a  noble  and  unselfish  nature.  As  a  presiding 
elder  he  served  with  honor  to  himself  and  the  church  the  Danville. 
Bloomington,  Champaign  and   Decatur  districts,  beginning  and  ending 


his  work  as  presiding  elder  on  the  Danville  district,  in  the  performance 
of  the  functions  of  this  important  office,  he  commanded  and  merited  the 
confidence  of  bishop,  presiding  elders,  preachers  and  people.  The  full 
measure  of  his  large  ability  and  unquestioned  integrity  were  brought  to 
the  maintenance  and  execution  of  every  trust  reposed  in  him  by  the 
church. 

In  caring  for  the  interests  of  the  preachers  of  his  district,  he  was 
unsurpassed  by  any  of  his  contemporaries  in  office.  Ever  watchful, 
tender-hearted  and  sympathetic,  his  brethren  learned  to  trust  and  love 
him  as  a  true  friend. 

••The  invincible  logic,  intense  fervor,  thrilling  eloquence  and  often 
melting  pathos  of  mjn/  of  his  sermons  made  the  quarterly  meeting 
occasions  times  of  great  interest  and  profit  to  both  preachers  and  people. 
His  commanding  presence,  his  over-mastering  oratory,  his  passionate 
enthusiasm  and  his  transparently  honest  earnestness  will  long  be  remem- 
bered by  those  who  :aw  and  heard  him  in  the  prime  days  of  his  full- 
orbed  manhood. 

******* 

He  was  four  times  elected  to  represent  the  Annual  Conference  in 
the  General  Conference  of  the  church,  viz.:  In  1856.  1872.  1876  and 
1880.  and  in  this  we  may  well  recognize  not  only  his  popularity  with  his 
brethren  in  his  ministry,  but  his  native  genius  for  government,  his  pre- 
ordained destiny  to  be  a  leader  of  men  and  great  movements,  and  his 
eminent  fitness  to   be  entrusted  with  the  most  sacred  interests  of  the 

church. 

******* 

Dr.  Buck  was  the  ardent  and  unwavering  friend,  advocate  and 
patron  of  higher  education,  and  in  the  prim.e  of  his  best  manhood  he 
turned  aside  from  the  regular  work  of  the  ministry  to  devote  his  time 
and  energies  to  the  advancement  of  our  educational  work.     The  institu 


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tions  of  his  own  conference  lay  nearest  his  heart,  and  their  financial 
embarrassment  awakened  his  deepest  sympathy.  In  1863  he  was  ap- 
pxDinted  financial  agent  of  the  Illinois  Female  College  at  Jacksonville. 
and  in  1869  agent  for  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  at  Bloomington. 
In  this  capacity  he  served  the  former  in.stitution  one  year  and  the  latter 
three  years. 

•'During  the  last  twenty-five  years  of  his  life  these  two  institutions 
have  continued  to  draw  increasingly  upon  the  sympathies  of  his  heart 
and  the  best  thought  and  energy  of  his  tireless  brain,  until  thought  and 
sympathy,  accumulating  energy  and  generating  action,  finally  crystallized 
themselves  in  the  munificence  of  princely  gifts,  which  will  make  his 
name  immortal,  his  influence  perpetual,  and  his  example  an  inspiration 
to  many  others,  to  consecrate  their  worldy  substance  to  the  cause  of 
Christian  education.  While  the  ardent  friend  of  education  in  general, 
and  of  Christian  education  in  particular,  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University, 
because  of  its  location,  its  management,  its  aims  and  its  future  possibili- 
ties, lay  nearer  his  heart  than  any  other  similar  institution  of  learning." 
— Illinois  Conference  Minutes.  1 892. 

Soon  after  President  Wilder  became  president.  Dr.  Buck  informed 
him  that  he  had  determined  to  give  finally  a  large  portion  of  his  estate 
to  the  university.  After  mature  reflection,  knowing  the  great  need  of 
greater  endowment  for  the  university,  and  believing  that  it  is  wise  for  a 
person  to  administer  on  his  own  estate  and  his  duty  to  provoke  others 
also  to  good  works,  he  executed  a  warranty  deed  of  land  valued  at 
$12,500.  now  worth  $15,000.  in  favor  of  the  trustees  of  the  university. 
reserving  a  life  interest  for  himself  and  Mrs.  Buck.  This  gift  was 
further  conditioned  in  that  the  university  should  raise  $25,000  more  for 
the  same  purposes  by  January  I,  1892.  This  condition  was  fully  met  in 
September.  1891.  when  a  similar  deed  was  executed  of  land  valued  at 
$15,000  on  the  condition  that  the  university  should  raise  $30,000  more 


endowment  purposes  by  January  1,  1893.  This  last  condition  was  fully 
met  a  few  months  after  his  death,  in  August.  1892.  As  we  review  this 
review  thjs  remarkable  ministry  of  devotion  to  God  and  the  Methodist 
church,  which  was  so  fruitful  for  nearly  half  a  century,  these  final  acts 
appear  a  grand  climax  in  the  life  of  this  man  of  God.  His  gift  of 
$30,000  secured  directly  to  the  university  endowment  $55,000  more, 
not  including  $6,000  from  Jonathan  Totten,  who  was  moved  by  Dr, 
Buck's  course  to  bequeath  this  amount  to  the  university.  A  number  of 
others  also  under  the  same  influence  are  known  to  have  made  similar 
provision.  What  this  gift  may  contribute  to  the  ages  to  come  to  the 
good  of  human  society  by  promoting  sanctified  learning  is  beyond  human 
conception.      Most  fitting  end  of  a  noble  earthly  ministry. 

Hiram  Buck  has  immortalized  himself  in  these  gifts  especially,  and 
hereafter  it  must  be  written  of  him  : — The  chief  founder  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University.  No  more  worthy  object  could  have  engaged  his 
attention  and  received  his  beneficence  than  this  which  stands  for  the 
highest  Christian  education. 

REV.   COLIN    D.  JAMES. 

Among  the  ministers  especially  interested  in  the  movement  in  1850 
to  found  an  institution  of  learning  at  Bloomington  was  Colin  D.  James. 
an  honored  member  of  the  Illinois  Conference.  He  was  born  in  Vir- 
ginia, 1808,  and  died  in  1888.  honored  and  loved  by  all  who  knew  him. 
His  father  having  been  a  practicing  physician  and  a  local  preacher  in  the 
Methodist  church,  he  had  advantages  for  an  education  superior  to  those 
of  the  average  youth  of  the  day.  which  were  well  improved.  As  a  preacher 
he  has  been  described  as  "exceedingly  practical,  sententious. pithy,  earn- 
est and  devoted."  Though  he  served  but  one  term  of  three  years  as 
trustee,  his  services  were  highly  appre:;iatsd.  and  continusd  Ion:'  after 
his  official  relation  was  severed. 


!  LI.  I  NO  IS   WESLEY  AN    UNIVERSITY. 


Mrs.  Martha   A.   Buck, 

TRUSTEE:    SINCE    18<52. 

Mrs.  Martha  A.  Buck  was  elected  trustee 
in  1892  for  the  unexpired  term  of  Dr. 
Bucl<.  whose  death  occurred  that  autumn, 
and  is  now  serving  her  second  term.  Shar- 
ing the  large  interest  that  Dr.  Buck  him- 
self had  in  the  institution  from  its  struggling 
infancy,  that  interest  has  been  intensified, 
having  taken  an  active  part  in  the  business 
of  the  board  of  trustees.  In  the  death 
of  Dr,  Buck  the  university  lost  a  warm 
friend,  a  wise  counselor  a  sagacious 
trustee,  and  skillful  in  execution,  but 
found  a  friend  in  Mrs.  Buck,  as  de- 
voted to  its  interests  and  determined  to 
advance  its  prosperity,  enlarge  its  sphere 
of  usefulness  and  enrich  the  society  of  the 
commonwealth.  She  was  born  in  Bour- 
bon county,  Kentucky,  and  came  when 
only  three  years  old  to  Illlinois  with  her 
father.  John  Hammitt.  who  was  the  sec- 
ond white  settler  in  Coles  county.  She 
was  married  to  Hiram  Buck.  September 
17.  1846.  Her  industry,  intelligence,  and 
excellency  of  womanly  character  were 
valuable  contributions  to  the  success  of 
her  husband's  ministry  and  the  accumula- 
tion of  property.     Of  this  union  there  were 


no  children  born,  but  Mrs.  Bu:k.  oul  of  her  kindiess  of  hear 


Mrs   Martha  A.  Buck. 


gave  th=;  the  ad/antag3s  of  a  Christian 
home,  where  every  want  was  kindly  met. 
to  four  nieces  who  were  all  reared  to 
young  womanhood  and  well  provided  for. 
two  of  whom  later  she  ministered  unto  as 
tenderly  as  a  fond  mother  until  death 
claimed  them.  Her  home  is  now  bright- 
ened by  the  presence  of  two  orphan  child- 
ren of  one  of  these  nieces,  for  whom  she 
provides  as  if  they  were  her  own. 

Mrs.  Buck  is  a  woman  of  fine  pres- 
ence, keen  wit.  well  informed  as  to  the 
great  philanthropical.  educational,  social 
and  religious  topics  of  the  day.  and  in 
many  ways  unknown  not  only  to  the  public 
but  to  her  friends,  contributes  to  the  needy 
and  worthy. 

She  is  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  Wo- 
man's Foreign  Missionary  Society,  and 
has  educated  at  least  one  native  girl  in 
one  of  the  foreign  fields.  Since  her  e'ec- 
tion  as  trustee  of  the  university  she  has 
become  much  interested  in  its  proper  en- 
dowment and  is  now  especially  interested 
in  the  erection  of  a  new  hall  for  ladies  and 
Wis  th;  first  to  subscribe  five  hundred 
dollars  toward  the  building.  Her  relation 
to  this  enterprise  is  sufficient  guaranty  to 
all  who  know  her  that  every  detail  will  be 
worked    out    in  wisdom  to  completeness. 


HISTORICAL    SKBICH    AND    ALUMNI    RECORD. 


VlLLIAH    SVAIM   PREMTICE. 
Trustee  and  One  or  the  Chief  Patrons. 

Rev.  William  Swaim  Prentice.  D.  D.. 
a  descendant  of  Captain  Thomas  Prentice 
who  came  from  England  and  settled  at 
Newton.  Massachusetts,  in  1650,  was  born 
in  1819  in  St.  Clair  county,  Illinois.  He 
availed  himself  of  the  best  advantages  af- 
forded in  the  schools  of  that  early  day.  and 
when  but  a  youth  obtained  an  appointment 
as  clerk  in  the  United  States  Land  Office 
at  Vandaiia.  at  that  time  the  capitol  of  the 
State.  He  was  soon  afterwards  employed 
in  the  State  Auditor's  office,  and  came  to 
Springfield  upon  the  removal  of  the  Capi- 
tol to  that  place,  where  he  made  his  home 
from  1867  until  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  was  intimately  acquainted  with  all  the 
public  men  of  the  State  during  his  young 
manhood,  and  was  a  favorite  of  Ho.i. 
Stephen  A.  Douglas,  through  whom  he 
secured  an  appointment  under  the  govern- 
ment at  Washington.  D.  C.  He  was  also 
greatly  interested  in  military  affairs,  and 
rose  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  in 
the  State  militia  and  served  as  Aid  upon 
the  Governors  staff. 

He  entered   the  ministry  in  the  Illinois 


conference    of    the  Methodist  Episcopal  church   in    1849.  and 


WiL.i  lAM  S.  Prentice. 


soon  rose  to  a  commanding  position  not 
only  in  the  councils  of  his  conference  but 
of  his  denomination.  In  skill  as  an  ad- 
ministrator, and  especially  in  the  office  of 
presiding  elder,  which  office  he  filled  for 
twenty-four  years,  he  excelled.  He  was 
exceedingly  modest,  and  in  whatever  he 
believed  to  bs  right  he  was  as  firm  as  a 
pillar  mortised  in  rock.  He  had  the  art 
of  influencing  and  controlling  men  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Church  developed  in  a  larger 
degree  than  any  other  man  1  have  known, 
and  yet  was  seldom  heard  upon  the  confer- 
enc  floor,  or  in  the  deliberative  body.  As 
another  has  said,  "He  was  a  man  of  su- 
perior judgment.  Give  brother  Prentice 
the  premises,  let  the  subject  be  what  it 
might,  and  he  would  give  you  dispassionate 
and  clear  judgment,  whether  you  fell  into 
his  conclusion  or  not,  and  you  saw  ample 
reason  for  coming  to  his  conclusion.  He 
was  a  man  than  who  no  man  ever  lived 
was  truer  to  his  friends." 

His  mind  was  thoroughly  disciplined, 
and  his  powers  were  brought  into  unusual 
control,  and  were  rrade  to  answer  the  de- 
mands of  reason  and  an  enlightened  con- 
science ;  for  this  reason  his  opinion  was 
sought  as  that  of  no  other  man  in  his  con- 
ference   contemporary  with  him.      1  think 


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all  who   knew  him   will   readily  concede  that  he  was  the  greatest  Pre- 
siding Elder  in  the  history  of  the  Illinois  conference. 

From  the  earliest  days  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  he  was 
one  of  its  wisest  counselors  and  truest  friends.  For  about  thirty  years 
he  was  intimately  associated  with  Dr.  Buck  in  planning  for  its  develop- 
ment, and  may  be  truly  considered  as  one  of  its  founders.  It  was  unto 
this  man  that  President  Munsell  often  went  in  the  hours  of  its  extremity 
for  wisdom  in  directing  the  affairs  of  the  institution  ;  and  in  Dr.  Prentice 
President  Adams  confided  more  than  in  any  other  man;  and  if  the  truth 
were  known,  it  would  doubtless  appear  that  Dr.  Prentice  influenced  him 
more  than  any  one  other  individual.  The  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  will 
ever  rejoice  in  his  memory,  and  consider  that  it  honored  himself  in 
conferring  upon  William  S.  Prentice  the  degree  or  D.  D.,  in  1875. 

REV.   JOHN    S.   BARGER. 

A  character  long  to  be  remembered  by  the  students  who  were  at 
the  university  previous  to  1876  was  that  of  John  S.  Barger,  trustee  from. 
1850  to  1862.  one  year  financial  agent,  a  frequent  visitor  and  an  enthu- 
siastic supporter  until  called  to  his  reward.  His  son.  Rev.  James  H.. 
received  the  first  degree  conferred  by  the  trustees,  and  later  Richard  S., 
another,  received  its  academic  honors. 

He  was  born  in  Virg'nia  in  1803,  and  died  in  1876.  Like  many  of 
the  great  men  of  Illinois,  though  born  in  Virginia  he  spent  his  youth  in 
Kentucky,  where  he  began  his  ministry.  Having  had  the  best  advan- 
tages short  of  a  full  collegiate  course  of  study,  he  was  fairly  well  educated. 
He  was  tall,  and  most  dignified  in  mien,  and  always  bore  the  marks  of  a 
true  Christian  gentleman.  His  pulpit  efforts  were  scholarly,  exceedingly 
devout,  clear,  logical  and  doctrinal.  For  several  years  prior  to  his  death 
he  lived  in  Bloomington  and  was  a  frequent  visitor  at  the  university. 


THE    FLORENCE    CAMERON    SCHOLARSHIP. 

In  the  fall  of  1890  a  beautiful  young  woman  enrolled  in  the  Fresh- 
man class,  having  prepared  for  college  in  the  Greenfield  high  school. 
Quiet  in  demeanor,  amiable  in  disposition,  and  thoroughly  earnest  in  her 

studies,  she  soon  won  the  affection 
of  both  faculty  and  students  :  but  it 
was  not  her  destiny  to  complete  a 
collegiate  course  of  study  and  exer- 
cise her  developed  powers  in  doing 
good  on  earth.  She  fell  a  victim 
to  heart  disease  August  1,  1891. 
Her  mother,  Martha  Elzina  Cam- 
eron, the  widow  of  George  W. 
Cameron,  who  died  in  Greenfield, 
Illinois.  October  16.  1886.  was  left 
without  husband  and  childless,  and 
as  a  memorial  to  Florence,  gave 
$1,000  to  the  trustees  of  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  to 
establish  the  Florence  Cameron 
Scholarship,  the  income  from 
which  is  to  be  used  perpetually  to 
aid  worthy  young  women  in  secur- 
ing a  Christian  education.  This 
is  a  beautiful  memorial  to  a  pure  and  spotless  young  womanhood  worthy 
of  kindest  remembrance;  a  memorial,  too,  of  munificence  for  the  com- 
ing generation  of  young  women,  and  not  wasted  in  frivolous  display. 
Mrs.  Martha  Cameron  is  a  woman  of  fine  business  ability  and  a  firm 
friend  of  the  university. 


FLORENCE   CAMERON. 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH   AND    ALUMNI   RECORD, 


Oven  T.  Reeues. 

President  of  Board  of  Trustees  and 
Dean  of  law  School. 

Judge  Owen  T.  Reeves.  B.  A..  M.A.. 
LL.  D..  President  of  the  joint  Board  of 
Trustees  and  Dean  of  the  College  of 
Law.  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1829.  He 
attended  the  common  schools  and  la- 
bored upon  his  father's  farm  until  he 
was  seventeen  years  of  age.  when  he  en- 
tered Salem  Academy  to  prepare  for 
college,  and  was  graduated  from  the 
Ohio  Wesleyan  University  in  1850.  in 
1850  to  1851  he  was  tutor  of  languages 
in  the  University,  and  the  following 
year  he  was  principal  of  Berea  Semi- 
nary in  Cleveland.  Ohio.  In  1853  he 
was  Principal  of  the  Chillicothe  High 
School  and  a  student  of  law  under  the 
direction  of  W.  T.  McClintock.  Hav- 
ing been  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1854. 
he  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Bloom- 
ington,  Illinois,  where  his  integrity,  in- 
dustry, and  ability  soon  brought  him 
into  recognition  as  one  of  the  leading 
men  of  his  profession  in  the  State. 

In  1862  he  raised  and  commanded 
the  75th  Illinois  Volunteers.  He  was 
elected   circuit  judge   in    1877.  which 


position  he  filled  with  devotion  and  rare  ability  until  1890.      His 


Owen  T.  Reeves. 


connection  with  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University  began  in  1854,  almost  im- 
mediately upon  his  arrival  at  Bloom- 
ington,  having  bsen  employed  to  fill  out 
an  unexpired  term  of  one  of  the  teach- 
ers. He  was  elected  trustee  in  1855, 
and  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
in  1857.  and  remained  in  the  office 
and  performed  its  duties  until  1876. 
He  has  thus  been  officially  connected 
with  the  university  almost  from  its  or- 
ganization, and  has  been  a  member  of 
its  executive  committee  since  1855, 
serving  as  secretary  of  the  Board, 
chairman  of  the  executive  committee, 
or  President  of  the  joint  Board  of 
Trustees  until  this  time  without  pecuni- 
ary compensation. 

Judge  Reeves  has  been  retained  in 
this  connection  so  long  because  of  his 
wisdom  which  is  not  abating,  and  of  the 
value  of  his  services,  which  is  of  greater 
moment  daily.  Such  long  continued, 
unselfish  devotion  should  never  be  over- 
looked though  it  is  often  unappreciated, 
a  fact  which  renders  it  the  more  beau- 
tiful, valuable,  and  praiseworthy. 

Truth  also  demands  the  record  of 
the  fact  that  others  have  served  on  the 
local  Board  of   Trustees  and  rendered 


ILLINOIS    WES  LEY  AN    UNIVERSITY 


important  service  from  year  to  year  gratuitously:  even  at  this  time  tiiere 
are  men  devoting  time  and  energy  of  thought  which  most  men  would 
turn  to  account  in  their  private  business,  and  all  this  wilhout  money 
consideration,  or  the  desire  for,  or  thought  of  it.  The  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  board  tor  some  years  past  have  received  a  small  salary, 
but  little  if  any  more  than  enough  to  cover  actual  office  expenses.  But 
among  all  the  faithful,  no  one  his  served  more  faithfully  or  more 
efficiently  with  a  sublimer  faith  in  the  possibilities  cf  the  institution  than 
has  Judge  Owen  T.  Reeves.  It  would  be  impossible  to  ccmpule  the 
time  he  has  given  to  its  interests  since  1855.  having  made  its  interests 
his  own.  and  at  the  same  time  he  has  given  largely  cf  his  means. 

At  a  banquet  given  on  the  twelfth  of  June.  1895.  in  honor  of  Judge 
Reeves,  in  recognition  of  his  long  service  ss  a  member  of  the  beard  of 
trustees.  Rev.  Preston  Wood.  Sr.  in  response  to  the  sentiment,  "/uld 
Lang  Syne."  uttered  words  of  praise  well  earned  by  the  living  and  the 
dead  when  he  said : 

••  It  is  a  saying  that  los?s  none  of  its  fo-ce  by  frequent  reoeftion,  that 
youth  lives  m.ostiy  in  the  future  ana  age  in  the  pss^,  and  tnis,  1  presume, 
is  the  reason  for  the  assignment  of  this  topic  to  myself— 'Auld  Lang 
Syne.' 

••We  have  all.  ho'»vever.  lately  lived  chiefly  in  the  precincts  of  the 
past;  delivering  decoration  day  addresses,  and  preaching  memorial  ser- 
mons. We  have  moved  amid  the  sacred  scenes  where  sleep  the  brave: 
have  laid  their  floral  tributes  on  their  graves  and  fanned  them  with  the 
breath  of  praise  and  of  'waving  bs.iners.'  and  have  sympathized  with 
the  sublime  sentiment,  that  there  is  no  better  place  for  •  the  ivy  to  shed 
'ts  leaves  than  at  the  foot  of  the  o?k  that  nourished  V.' 

••  My  theme  today  links  the  present  to  the  past,  the  living  to  the 
dead:  and  whilst  I  bring  bouquets  for  the  one,  I  am  privileged  to  bear 
garlr.nds  for  the  other. 


••  Early  in  the  fifties  my  interest  in  the  things  that  pertained  to  the 
well-being  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  began.  It  was  a  babe  in 
swaddlings  then,  and  a  puny  babe  at  best  :  but  it  had  its  nursing  fathers 
—clerical  and  lay-  and  it  never  lifted  up  its  voice  and  wept  but  they 
•had  compassion  on  the  child.' 

••Am.cng  the  clergy  was  that  sagacious  sen  cf  Scctch  descent. 
Reuben  Andrus:  that  eloquent  Irishman,  Thomas  Magee  :  the  pure- 
m.inced  George  Futlege:  the  two  Peters— Akers  and  Cartwright;  a 
litt'e  la;er  en.  the  knightly  Hiram  Buck:  and  that  crystallization  of 
common  sense.  William  S.  Prentice,  and  others.  Some  of  these  men 
gave  out  of  their  penury  to  this  institution  until  if  everything  that  they 
had  left  had  been  put  up  fcr  sale  and  sold  at  par.  it  had  not  aggregated 
the  sum  of  their  beneficence. 

••  Among  the  laity,  the  ever  courteous  Judge  McClun:  Jesse  Birch. 
the  embodimient  of  business  integrity — that  man  whcm  it  was  a  privi- 
lege to  know  :  John  Mag-oun.  gentle  as  the  daybreak  and  generous  as 
its  light:  and  among  others  that  I  need  not  name,  that  stalwart  man 
whose  native  eloquence  in  defense  of  country  and  of  flag  shook  our 
Senate  halls  as  they  have  never  been  shaken  since—  miaking  •treason 
odious'  and  traitors  tremble  in  their  citadel — Isaac  Funk.  These  are 
some  of  the  men  of  •  Auld  Lang  Syne:'  these  among  the  men  who 
m.ade  this  university  possible:  they  have  gone  before,  and.  if  •a  monu- 
ment you  ask.  look  around.' 

"Of  the  survivors  of  that  noble  band — that  frequent  forlorn  hope — 
is  on2  who  was  always  safe  in  counsel  as  he  was  brave  to  act — cne  who 
is  the  hcrored  guest  ct  this  banquet.  Judge  Owen  T.  Reeves. 

••  1  rejoice  with  you  that  he  still  retains  a  bright  •  old  age.  uncon- 
scious of  decay.'  May  heaven  crown  him  with  its  benediction  as  we 
crown  him  with  our  prayers:  and  may  he  be  long  spared  to  guide  us  in 
cur  counsels  and  to  inspire  us  by  his  actions  as  in  •  Auld  Lang  Syne! 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH   AND    ALUMNI   RECORD. 


Judge  Reeves  has  been  officially  connected  also  with  the  Law 
School  of  the  university  since  its  organization,  and  has  contributed 
largely  to  its  development  and  success.  As  dean  of  the  school,  he  most 
wisely  and  ably  directs  its  affairs. 


Rev.  PETEf^  CAf^TVRlQHT. 
Trustee.  i850-i87i. 

But  few  persons  into  whose  hands  this  sketch  will  fall  have  not 
heard  of  that  man  of  pioneer  fame.  Peter  Cartwright.  He  was  one  of 
the  original  trustees  and  remained  an  active  member  until  1871. 
Though  born  in  Virginia  in  1785.  his  youth  and  early  manhood  were 
spent  in  Kentucky,  where  at  a  meeting  held  jointly  by  the  Presbyterians 
and  Methodists  he  was  converted  in  iSOi,  and  soon  afterwards  entered 
the  ranks  as  an  itinerant  minister,  being  ordained  by  Bishop  Asbury. 
In  1823  he  came  to  Illinois  and  settled  his  family  at  Pleasant    Plains. 

For  fifty  years  he  was  an  acknowledged  leader  among  men  in 
laying  the  foundations  of  the  Church  and  the  State  of  Illinois.  A  de- 
scription of  his  personal  appearance  written  by  Rev.  J.  L.  Crane,  who 
knew  him  intimately,  harmonizes  well  with  the  writer's  recollection  of 
him : 

••Dr.  Cartwright  was  about  five  feet  ten  inches  high,  and  had  a 
squarely  built,  powerful  frame,  weighing  nearly  two  hundred  pounds.  He 
often  said  that  he  had  a  constitution  that  could  wear  out  two  or  three 
threshing  machines.  His  complexion  was  dark,  he  had  high  cheek 
bones,  and  a  small,  piercing  black  eye.  His  hair  was  never  very  straight, 
and  as  his  head  was  very  large  he  presented  at  times  a  very  bold  and 
formidable  look.  His  hardships  and  exposure  seemed  but  to  add  to  his 
manly  vigor  and  produce  almost  perfect  health ;  and  he  appreciated  the 


blessing  of  heaven  so  greatly  that  he  had  a  high  regard  for  the  muscular 
part  of  his  Christianity.  Added  to  and  above  all  his  superior  physical 
strength  he  had  a  sort  of  moral  and  kingly  power  that  belongs  to  all 
real  heroes,  without  which  the  grandest  muscular  development  is  but  as 
wood,  hay  and  stubble.  His  gesticulation,  his  manner  of  listening,  his 
walk  and  his  laugh  were  peculiar,  and  would  command  attention  in  a 
crowd  of  a  thousand.  There  was  something  undsfinable  about  the 
whole  man,  that  was  attractive  to  the  majority  of  people,  and  made 
them  linger  in  his  presence,  and  made  them  want  to  see  him  again." 

The  writer  will  never  forget  the  impression  he  received  the  first 
time  he  saw  Peter  Cartwright.  It  was  in  childhood  and  at  a  week  day 
quarterly  meeting  at  which  Dr.  Cartwright  presided.  1  sat  by  my 
parents  in  the  pew,  and  the  preacher  arose  in  the  old-fashioned  high 
box  pulpit  to  preach.  The  subject  was  the  "Fall  of  Jericho."  The 
blasts  of  the  seven  trumpets  of  rams'  horns  were  made  intensely  realistic 
by  his  powerful  voice,  piercing  black  eyes,  and  massive  head  with  its 
apparently  coarse  and  unkempt  hair  as  it  appeared  over  the  top  of  the 
pulpit.  'Whatever  the  message  was,  the  messenger  was  frightful  and 
terrible  to  the  child  worshiper. 

There  was  much  more  than  the  physical  to  Dr.  Cartwright,  though 
unique  in  presence  and  address.  As  Mr.  Crane  has  written,  the  great 
truths  of  Christianity  had  engaged  his  attention  and  occupied  his  thoughts; 
and  to  this  day,  what  can  be  more  stimulating  to  mental  activity  and 
more  conducive  to  mental  health  or  mental  power.  The  soul  which 
gives  itself  to  these  truths  cannot  stagnate,  neither  can  the  mind  become 
inactive  or  move  in  a  little  circle  of  sense.  To  such  a  mind  the  world 
or  universe  never  becomes  as  small  as  itself.  "  His  mind  naturally  and 
readily  perceived  the  strong  points  of  a  subject  and  did  not  waste  its 
energies  on  side  issues,  and  hence  he  soon  became  acknowleged  as  a 
man  of  superior  mental  power.      His  acquaintance  with  books  was  not 


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commensurate  with  his  intellect ;  yet  he  seemed  to  possess  a  knowledge 
of  all  the  important  facts  of  history,  ancient  and  modern.  He  had  a 
remarkable  perception  of  men,  and  seldom  had  occasion  to  change  his 
first  impression  of  a  man's  character.  He  said  he  could  read  in  ten 
minutes,  a  man  who  talked  much  Public  men  had  a  very  high  re- 
gard for  his  mental  and  moral  power." 

Tradition  would  warrant  the  belief  that  Dr.  Cartwright  was  opposed 
to  colleges  and  an  educated  ministry:  but  in  this  case,  as  it  is  often, 
tradition  is  misleading.  He  detested  shams  and  pedants  and  readily 
detected  them  ;  he  denied  that  intellectual  insignt  was  a  valid  guaranty 
of  moral  character,  and  held  that  high  intellectual  illumination  and  cul- 
ture might  co-exist  with  ethical  night.  Mere  book  knowledge  was  not 
highly  esteemed,  and  woe  unto  him  who  paraded  it  in  his  presence  as 
the  essence  of  superiority.  His  heart  and  thought  were  not  against  the 
schools,  but  in  full  accord  with  the  fundamental  ideas  underlying  all 
efforts  to  found  them  and  to  perpetuate  the  knowledge  of  letters.  An 
ignorant  opponent  of  education  could  never  have  represented  the  Illinois 
Conference  in  thirteen  quadrennial  legislative  assemblies  of  his  church, 
or  held  the  office  of  presiding  elder  for  fifty  consecutive  years,  or  re- 
ceived in  his  honor  the  jubilee  services  of  his  entire  conference,  the 
distinctive  honors  awarded  to  no  other  person  in  history. 

JAMES    C.    FINLEY,    TRUSTEE,     1850-1855. 

It  is  with  pride  that  we  can  speak  of  Rev.  James  C.  Finley.  M.  D., 
as  a  member  of  the  first  class  of  trustees  of  the  university,  and  one  of 
its  most  intelligent  patrons.  He  was  truly  one  of  God's  elect,  and  the 
election  was  jusfified  by  his  nobility  of  character.  Born  of  Presbyterian 
parents  in  New  Jersey,  1802,  he  grew  up  in  that  stalwart  faith  and 
received  a  liberal  classical  education  at   Princeton  college.     After  his 


collegiate  course  he  studied  medicine  under  the  celebrated  Dr.  Rush  of 
Philadelphia.  He  practiced  medicine  in  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  for  a  short 
time,  and  entered  upon  his  professional  career  at  Jacksonville,  Illinois, 
but  discontinued  the  practice  in  1835  to  enter  upon  the  ministry  of  the 
gospel. 

In  answer  to  a  deep  conviction  that  he  should  preach,  he  joined  the 
Mississippi  Conference  in  1837,  having  become  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  upon  his  arrival  in  Jacksonville  in  1835.  In  1841  he  was 
transferred  to  the  Illinois  Conference  and  was  elected  to  the  presidency 
of  McKendree  college,  over  which  he  presided  until  1845.  Again  in 
1864  he  was  called  to  McKendree  College  as  professor  of  Greek.  One 
has  written  of  him  that  his  ■■whole  organization  was  of  the  finest  quality. 
Eyes,  skin,  hair,  step,  all  proclaimed  the  intellectuality  and  sensitiveness 
of  the  man — a  soul  set  to  the  most  exquisite  music  of  life." 

In  scholarship  he  was  accurate,  in  philosophy  thoroughly  versed, 
and  the  Greek  testament  was  his  delight.  The  influence  of  his  life  is 
ennobling  and  refining. 

EDWIN  C.   HYDE. 

Edwin  C.  Hyde,  one  ot  the  honorable  citizens  of  Bloomington. 
served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  from  1868  to  1874,  Mr. 
Hyde  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  University  Charge,  now 
Grace  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  has  been  closely  identified  with 
the  interests  of  the  university.  He  is  a  native  of  New  York,  but  in 
youth  removed  with  his  parents  to  Delaware.  Ohio,  where  he  received  a 
fair  English  education  at  the  Wesleyan  University.  He  came  to  Bloom- 
ington. Illinois  in  1854  and  soon  after  this  time  commenced  business 
as  a  merchant  tailor.  In  the  early  days  of  the  university,  Mr.  Hyde 
rendered  valuable  service  and  remains  one  of  its  warm  friends.  He  is 
an  earnest  and  enthusiastic  Christian,  and  grows  old  gracefully. 


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David  Davis. 

Trustee  and  Patron. 

The  history  and  character  of  Judge 
David  Davis.  M.  A.,  LL.  D..  are  too  well 
known  and  too  fully  represented  in  en- 
cyclopaedias and  histories  to  justify  ex- 
tended mention  in  this  work.  He  was 
born  in  Maryland  in  1815  and  died  in 
Bloomington.  Illinois,  June  26.  1886.  He 
was  a  representative  product  of  American 
institutions,  and  as  a  man.  citizen,  lawyer 
and  jurist  is  a  good  example  to  American 
youth.  In  youth  he  perceived  the  royal 
elements  of  human  nature,  felt  his  respon- 
sibilities in  being,  and  allied  himself  more 
or  less  directly  and  publicly  with  those 
forces  in  society  without  which  no  individ- 
ual can  perfect  himself.  He  recognized 
his  relation  to  his  Maker  as  that  of  a  re- 
sponsible servant  and  was  a  regular  attend- 
ant at  the  services  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  and  lived  a  consistent  life,  not 
only  in  the  more  lowly,  but  also  in  the  ex- 
alted positions  to  which  he  was  called  by 
the  will  of  the  people.  He  sought  the 
college  in  order  to  secure  that  most 
eminent  fitness,  to  live  nobly,  wisely  and 
well.  Kenyon  College,  Ohio,  has  the  dis- 
tinction of  numbering  David  Davis  among 


its  graduates,  he  having  completed  the  course  of  study  there  in 


David  Davis. 


1832  ;  his  law  course,  however,  was  taken 
at  Yale.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Illinois  in  1835.  and  practiced  at  Pekin 
for  one  year,  when  he  moved  to  Bloom- 
ington and  succeeded  to  the  practice  of 
Hon,  Jesse  W.  Fell,  with  whom  he  was 
intimately  associated  for  many  years.  His 
success  in  practice,  which  was  marked 
from  the  first,  was  due  more  to  the  mas- 
tery of  his  subject,  concentration  of  en- 
ergy, and  integrity  of  character  than  to  his 
power  of  oratory.  He  served  one  term  in 
the  legislature  of  Ilinois,  having  been 
elected  in  1843;  he  was  also  a  member 
of  the  convention  which  formed  the  con- 
stitution of  the  State  in  1847,  and  served 
with  eminent  ability  as  circuit  judge  from 
1848  to  1862,  when  he  was  appointed  a 
justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  by  his  life  long  friend,  Abraham 
Lincoln. 

To  Mr.  Davis  belongs  the  honor  and 
distinction  of  being  the  chief  individual 
instrument  in  securing  the  nomination  and 
election  of  Abraham  Lincoln  as  president 
of  the  United  States,  a  service  itself  de- 
serving perpetual  recognition.  No  doubt 
Lincoln  fully  appreciated  this  service;  but 
it  is  equally  clear  that  the  appointment 
to  wear  the  ermine   was  not  because   of 


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it.  but  rather  on  substantial  merit.  Lincoln  knew  Davis'  character 
and  judicial  learning,  though  at  that  time  his  reputation  as  a  lawyer 
and  jurist  was  confined  to  his  own  State.  Apropos  to  his  fitness  for 
the  responsibilities  and  honor  of  the  Supreme  Court,  the  author  of 
••Good  Old  Times  in  McLean  County"  quotes  from  the  "American 
Law  Times:  "  ••Judge  Davis  is  a  natural  lawyer,  a  character  so  truly 
great  that  to  doubt  him  would  be  impossible.  His  mind  is  all  equity, 
and  as  vigorous  as  it  is  kind.  He  is  progressive,  and  yet  cautious:  a 
people's  judge,  and  yet  a  lawyer's."  In  1872  Judge  Davis  received  the 
nomination  for  president  of  the  United  States  at  the  hands  of  the  labor 
reform  party.  In  reply  to  a  letter  informing  him  of  such  nomiination  he 
said:  •'Be  pleased  to  thank  the  convention  for  the  unexpected  honor 
which  they  have  conferred  upon  me.  The  chief  magistracy  of  the  re- 
public should  neither  be  sought  nor  declined  by  any  American  citizen." 
At  the  same  time  at  the  Cincinnati  convention  of  Liberal  Republicans 
his  name  was  prominently  urged  and  he  received  ninety-two  and  one- 
half  votes.  In  1877  he  was  chosen  by  the  representatives  of  Illinois  to 
succeed  John  A.  Logan  in  the  United  States  senate,  and  he  resigned 
his  position  as  justice  and  entered  the  senate.  After  the  death  of  Presi- 
dent Garfield,  Mr.  Davis  was  chosen  president  of  the  senate,  which 
offfce  he  filled  with  dignity  and  acceptability. 

Judge  Davis  was  one  of  the  early  patrons  of  the  Illinois  'Wesleyan 
and  served  as  trustee.  His  counsel  was  always  wise  and  his  gifts  liberal. 
The  university  was  the  first  to  honor  itself  by  conferring  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Laws,  which  also  was  conferred  by  Beloit  College  and 
Williams  College. 

DEWITT  C.    BENJAMIN. 

From  1856  to  1877,  one  of  the  frequent  visitors  at  the  Wesleyan 
and  one  always  noted  because  of  his  scholarly  bearings,  was  Rev.  DeWitt 


C.  Benjamin,  a  brother  of  Judge  Benjamin,  ex-dean  of  the  law  school. 
He  was  born  in  Red  Rock,  New  York,  and  came  west  and  settled  on  a 
farm  near  Hudson,  Illinois,  where  he  died  in  1876.  He  received  his 
early  education  at  the  Academy  of  Kinderhook.  New  York,  and  at  an 
early  age  became  very  proficient  in  Latin  and  Greek.  At  the  age  of 
sixteen  he  was  converted  and  united  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  and  was  licensed  to  preach  in  1841.  His  labors  in  the  ministry 
continued  a  number  of  years  after  he  moved  west.  His  studious  habits 
were  kept  up  throughout  his  life,  while  his  love  for  learning  made  him  a 
most  valuable  patron  and  trustee  of  the  university.  He  gave  liberally 
of  his  means  and  unsparingly  of  his  time  and  labor  to  its  necessities. 

One  son.  DeWitt  C.  and  two  daughters.  Martha  and  Mary,  were 
graduated  from  the  Wesleyan,  having  taken  its  preparatory  and  college 
courses  of  study.  He  was  a  careful,  painstaking  scholar,  and  a  Chris- 
tian gentleman  whose  services  were  highly  valuable. 

THOMAS  p.   ROGERS. 

Another  prominent  man  in  the  commercial,  social  and  political 
history  of  Bloomington  and  McLean  county,  and  one  of  the  first  advo- 
cates and  patrons  of  the  university,  was  Thomas  P.  Rogers,  M.  D.  His 
ancestry  was  from  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  the  excellencies  of  the  North 
Ireland  stock  were  prominent  characteristics  of  his  life. 

He  is  represented  as  having  been  a  man  of  commanding  presence, 
gentlemanly  and  scholarly,  an  active  politician  and  a  leader  in  the  circles 
in  which  he  moved.  He  served  as  trustee  of  the  university  from  1850 
to  1855.  Dr.  Rogers  was  most  highly  esteemed  by  his  generation  and  is 
well  and  favorably  remembered  by  those  who  were  associated  with  the 
university  in  its  formative  period.  He  was  especially  respected  for  his  per- 
sonal merits  by  the  late  venerable  Hiram  Buck,  with  whose  views, 
politically  and  socially,  he  was  in  general  sympathy. 


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JOSEPH  C.  ENGLISH.  TRUSTEE.    18S2-1892. 

Hon.  Joseph  G.  English,  whose  long  and  continued  faithful  service 
on  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  is  a  good 
example  of  what  one  may  accomplish  by  industry  and  honesty.    He  was 

born  in  Indiana  in  1820.  of  the  old 
Mayflower  stock,  and  began  life 
with  what  he  called  two  .splendid 
advantages:  good  health  and  pov- 
erty. In  youth,  thrown  upon  his 
own  resources,  he  formed  habits  of 
industry,  was  scrupulously  honest, 
and  developed  a  spirit  of  self-reli- 
ance which  seldom  fails  to  bring 
abundant  rewards.  His  opportini- 
ties  for  an  education  were  those 
furnished  in  the  log  school  house 
in  those  pioneer  days  of  Indiana 
life.  Notwithstanding,  he  has  se- 
cured, in  spite  of  the  lack  of  schools, 
extensive,  accurate  and  useful 
knowlege.  H  is  business  career  be- 
pan  as  a  clerk  for  his  board  and 
clothing. 

In  1843  he  married  Miss  Mary 
Hicks,  of  Perrysviile.  and  became  associated  with  his  father-in-law  in 
the  mercantile  business  at  that  place,  where  he  remained  until  1853, 
when  he  moved  to  Danville.  Illinois,  and  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  busi- 
ness in  partnership  with  John  L.  Tinchner.  a  man  of  great  business 
sagacity  and  public  spirit.     In  1856,  these  gentlemen  engaged  in  private 


JOSEPH  C.   EN3LISH. 


banking  and  met  with  signal  success,  and  in  1863  they  organized  the 
First  National  bank  of  Danville,  with  Mr.  English  its  first  president,  who 
has  served  in  that  capacity  until  this  day.  Through  his  integrity,  sa- 
gacity and  untirin?  energy  he  has  made  the  institution  one  of  the  most 
important  banking  corporations  in  the  State  of  Illinois. 

While  he  has  attended  rigorously  to  business,  eschewing  politics, 
though  often  importuned  to  accept  nominations  for  offices  of  honor  and 
trust,  he  has  been  public  spirited,  and  has  given  great  energy  to  enter- 
prises which  have  contributed  to  the  growth  and  worth  of  Danville.  He 
was  chiefly  instrumental  in  securing  for  his  city  the  Big  Four  and  Chi- 
cago 8i  Eastern  Illinois  railways.  He  has  been  a  director  of  the  latter 
road  for  eighteen  consecutive  years.  He  organized  the  Danville  & 
Grape  Creek  railway,  which  is  now  a  branch  of  the  Chicago  &.  Eastern 
Illinois.  Upon  the  failure  of  the  Grape  Creek  Coal  and  Coke  company, 
he  was  appointed  receiver  by  the  district  court,  and  is  still  acting  in 
that  capacity. 

He  was  not  only  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Kimber  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  church,  but  its  chief  supporter.  In  1872  he  was  elected 
lay  delegate  to  the  General  Conference,  and  again  in  1884.  where  he 
exhibited  that  accurate  knowledge  and  sound  judgment  which  constitute 
the  wisest  church  legislator  He  has  long  been  treasurer  of  the  Preach- 
ers' Aid  Society  of  the  Illinois  Conference,  and  he  has  been  one  of  the 
warmest  friends,  wisest  counselors,  and  largest  contributors  to  the  suc- 
cess of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  whose  trustee  he  has  been  for 
so  many  years.  In  all  he  undertakes,  Mr.  English  has  the  faculty  of 
adapting  means  to  ends,  and  brings  things  to  pass.  He  is  a  genial  com- 
panion, courteous  in  his  treatment  of  his  fellow  men  and  ever  willing  to 
extend  aid  to  the  deserving.  It  is  no  disparagement  to  the  splendid 
abilities  of  Mr.  English  to  say  that  his  most  excellent  wife  contributed 
largely  to  the  nobility  of  his  character  and  to  his  success  in  business. 


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ADKAHf\n  Mann. 

Trustee  hmd  0^^E  of  the  Chief  Founders. 

Abraham  Mann  was  born  in  1829  in 
Leighton  Buzzard.  Redfordshire,  England. 
and  came  to  the  United  States  with  his 
parents  in  1834  and  settled  on  a  farm 
near  Rossville.  Illinois,  in  the  spring  of 
1835,  having  tarried  for  a  short  time  in 
Herkimer.  New  York. 

He  attended  school  one  year  at  Craw- 
fordsville,  Indiana,  but  at  the  age  of  twelve 
was  sent  to  England  and  educated  in  a 
private  school  at  Ruggleswade.  In  1851. 
he  returned  to  America  and  settled  upon 
••Speedwell  Farm."  where  he  has  since 
resided.  Being  a  large  land  holder,  he 
has  been  extensively  engaged  in  stock 
raising,  his  herds  being  the  best  to  be 
found  anywhere  in  the  West. 

Mr.  Mann  is  a  typical  English  Ameri- 
can, well  read  in  the  history  of  his 
adopted  and  also  of  his  native  country,  and 
thoroughly  post  3d  in  current  literature, 
especially  that  which  pertains  to  political, 
economic  and  social  science.  Since  the 
days  of  his  young  manhood,  he  has  been  a 
prominent  factor  in  the  affairs  of  Vermilion 
county,  and  identified  with  the  interests  of 
the   Methodist   Episcopal   church  at  home 


and  abroad.      For  many  years  he   has  been  a   member  of  the 


Abraham  Mann. 


board  of  trustees  of  the  university,  and  a 
member  of  its  standing  committee  on 
finance.  During  all  these  years  he  has 
ungrudgingly  given  money,  time,  and  his 
wisest  ccunsel  in  .the  interest  of  the  insti- 
tution. But  a  few  years  ago  he  gave  the 
uuiversity  a  well  improved  farm  of  eighty 
acres,  s.tuated  near  Rossville.  in  1882 
he  was  married  to  Margaret  Ann  Dale. 
who  has  been  a  help-meet  indeed,  enter- 
ing heartily  into  his  plans  of  public  benefi- 
cence. Mr.  Mann  is  considered  one  of 
the  most  useful  and  valuable  members  of 
the  board  of  trustees. 

REV.   PRESTON  WOOD.  SR..  AGENT   AND 
TRUSTEE. 

Rev.  Preston  Wood,  an  exceedingly 
valuable  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
and  one  of  its  shrewdest  financiers  as  well 
as  wisest  counselors,  was  born  in  Picker- 
ing, Yorkshire,  England,  in  1825.  He 
entered  the  British  Wesleyan  Conference  in 
1 845.  in  which  he  served  until  1 85 1 .  when 
he  came  to  the  United  States  of  America. 
his  parents  having  preceded  him.  In 
1852  he  joined  the  Illinois  Conference, 
and  Hillsboro,  Waverly.  LeRoy.  Decatur 
and  Atlanta  were  served  by  him  before 
1861,  at  which  time  he  became  chaplain 


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of  the  38th  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry. 
which  fxjsition  he  resigned  in  October, 
1862.  on  account  of  injuries  received  at 
Fredricktown.  Missouri.  Re-entering  the 
ministry,  he  served  most  efficiently  the 
charges  at  Clinton.  Lincoln,  and  Carlin- 
ville.  In  1869  he  was  appointed  presiding 
elder  of  the  Danville  district,  and  served  a 
full  term.  From  1873-76  he  was  presid- 
ing elder  of  the  Bloomington  district.  In 
1877-78  he  was  agent  of  the  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan  University,  when  he  was  again  ap- 
pointed presiding  elder,  in  which  office  he 
served  a  full  term  on  the  Griggsville  dis- 
trict: and  in  1884-89  a  full  term  on  the 
Springfield  district. 

Mr.  Wood  was  not  only  a  prudent  and 
efficient  financial  agent  of  the  university. 
but  served  also  as  financial  agent  for  the 
Preachers'  Aid  Society,  and  has  from  its 
organization  been  one  of  its  chief  pro- 
moters. He  was  elected  to  the  General 
Conference  in  1872.  and  was  appointed  to 
the  Ecumenical  Conference  at  Washing- 
ton, in  1891. 

As  a  minister,  he  is  scriptural,  clear. 
and  forcible,  and  at  times  most  powerful. 
As  a  presiding  elder,  but  few  have  ever 
filled  that  office  in  his  conference  who 
have  surpassed  him  in  administrative  abil- 


ity, in  sagacity  and  fidelity.      His  long   experience  upon  the 
board  of  trustees  has  given  him  a  knowledge  of  the  business 


JEKVIS   C.    EV.ANS. 

interests  of  the  university  not  shared  by  many,  and  no  one 
uses  that  knowledge  more  wisely  in  the  promotion  of  its  inter- 


ests as  a  member  of  the  finance  commitse. 
In  1853  he  was  married  to  Jane  Chris- 
tian, of  Hillsboro.  Of  this  union  there  are 
six  children:  Captain  William  Thomas, 
U.  S.  A.:  Mary  W.,  wife  of  W.  S.  Phillips 
of  the  Illinois  Conference:  Mrs.  Anne  W. 
Galford.  of  Elkhart.  Illinois:  Catherine,  a 
teacher  at  Jacksonville,  Illinois  :  Preston, 
Jr.,  member  of  the  Illinois  Conference  of 
the  class  of  1891:  and  Albert  L..  member 
of  the  class  of  1896.  editor-in-chief  of  the 
Wesleyan  Argus,  and  orator  representing 
the  university  in  the  State  contest  in  1895. 

JERVIS  G.  EVANS.  TRUSTEE  AND  AGENT. 

Rev.  Jervis  G.  Evans.  D.  D..  LL.  D.. 
President  of  Hedding  College,  Illinois, 
was  educated  in  the  Peoria  Wesleyan 
Seminary,  Judson  College  and  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University.  He  joined  the  Rock 
River  Conference  in  1824.  He  spent 
tventy-three  years  in  the  pastorate,  four 
years  as  presiding  elder,  one  year  as  agent 
of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  one 
year  as  agent  of  the  Grand  Prairie  Semi- 
nary, served  thirteen  years  as  president  of 
Hedding  College  :  served  thirteen  years  as 
secretary  of  his  conference,  the  Central 
Illinois,  and  has  represented  it  in  the  Gen- 
eral  Conference   of    1876,    1884,    1892: 


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was  also  delegate  to  the  Centennial  Conference  at  Baltimore  in  1884. 
He  has  published  the  Christian  Citizen  ;  the  Uses  of  Tobacco :  Lotteries: 
The  License  System  :  Examination  of  the  Liquor  Traffic,  and  An  Open 
Letter  to  Dr.  Dorchester  and  various  other  lectures. 

Dr.  Evans  has  rendered  valuable  service  to  the  university  as 
trustee,  agent  and  conference  visitor. 

JAMES  LEATON.   TRUSTEE   AND   PATRON. 

Many  men.  intellectual  and  highly  cultured,  have  contributed  to  the 
university,  but  few  if  any  have  brought  greater  natural  gifts  more  sys- 
tematically developed  than  did  Rev.  James  Leaton,  D.  D.  He  was 
born  in  Lincolnshire,  England,  May  17,  1817.  "His  father,  who  came 
to  America  in  1832,  was  a  gentleman  farmer  of  considerable  estate. 
He  was  a  gentleman,  not  only  of  fortune  in  his  native  country,  but  of 
classical  culture  and  social  influence.  The  qualities  of  intellectual 
acuteness,  courage,  sternness  and  energy  were  marked  in  his  character. 
The  mother  was  a  woman  of  excellent  mind,  but  her  superiority  con- 
sisted more  in  those  noble  qualities  of  heart  that  made  her  a  benediction 
wherever  she  went.  She  was  of  gentle  nature,  decidedly  pious  and 
profoundly  interested  in  the  spiritual  welfare  of  her  family.  These,  to 
some  degree  diverging  parental  qualities,  had  a  peculiar  blending  in  the 
son,  and  on  the  side  of  nature  prepared  him  for  those  intellectual  and 
spiritual  attainm.ents  and  achievements  that  made  him  prominent  in  the 
church  of  which  he  became  a  member." 

James  was  intended  for  the  ministry  in  the  Church  of  England, 
and  with  that  end  in  view  was  educated  in  Crowland  Abbey.  While  he 
gave  a  long  life  in  perfect  consecration  to  the  ministry,  he  refused  to 
answer  the  call  of  his  parents  to  enter  upon  the  functions  of  the  holy 
calling  and  became  critical  and  skeptical.  He  was  too  honest  to  enter 
upon  a  course  of  life  to  which  he  did  not  give  his  whole  heart,  hence, 


thoroughly  educated  and  with  highly  disciplined  mental  powers,  he  began 
to  teach.  While  teaching  near  Springfield.  Illinois,  he  was  led  to  attend 
the  ministry  of  Rev.  Dr.  Peter  Akers,  of  blessed  memory.  Under  the 
power  of  this  prince  of  Biblical  scholars  and  pulpit  orators,  he  perceived 
the  truth,  bowed  in  submission  to  it,  and  felt  that  the  call  of  his  parents 
to  preach  the  Word  was  now  the  call  of  God.  Accordingly  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Illinois  Conference  in  1843.  His  broad,  liberal  educa- 
tion in  the  English,  Latin,  Greek  and  Hebrew  languages,  extended 
knowledge,  for  that  day,  of  the  natural  sciences,  scholarly  instincts  and 
habits,  and  his  thorough  consecration  to  duty,  gave  him  a  power  of  no 
mean  degree  in  the  pulpit  and  made  him  one  of  the  leaders  of  his  gene- 
ration. Three  times  he  was  chosen  to  represent  the  church  in  the 
General  Conference;  once  in  1856  by  the  Southern  Illinois  Conference, 
of  which  he  was  a  member  by  transfer  for  a  short  time,  and  twice  by 
the  Illinois  Conference,  in  1868  and  1876. 

He  was  also  honored  by  an  appointment  as  delegate  to  the  Centen- 
nial Conference  of  1884,  and  though  in  advancing  years  he  honored  the 
conference  by  his  representation.  He  was  also  appointed  in  1890  as  a 
member  of  the  Ecumenical  Conference  of  1891,  but  before  it  convened 
he  was  transferred  to  the  church  triumphant. 

He  was  very  methodical  in  whatever  he  did,  and  was  correspond- 
ingly exact.  His  pulpit  efforts  were  always  of  a  high  order  both  in  con- 
ception and  form,  and  were  biblical,  and  expository,  though  highly 
enriched  by  illustrations  from  the  treasures  of  science,  art,  and  philoso- 
phy. In  1887  he  was  appointed  conference  historian.  He  was  untiring 
in  his  search  for  historic  data,  and  gathered  material  of  greatest  interest, 
manifesting  some  of  the  characteristics  of  a  genius  for  his  work.  He 
published  one  volume,  the  "  History  of  Methodism  of  Illinois, '"  and  pre- 
pared the  manuscript  for  two  other  volumes  bringing  the  history  down  to 
1852,  which  have  not  yet  been  published.      He  was  a  model  secretary. 


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which  office  he  filled  for  many  years,  and  his  services  as  editor  of  the 
Conference  Minutes  were  no  less  excellent.  He  was  an  ardent  advo- 
cate of  the  highest  education,  and  cast  his  full  influence  in  the  support 
of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan.  with  which  he  was  officially  connected  as 
trustee  at  the  time  of  its  organization  and  afterwards  also  as  an  official 
visitor.  McKendree  College,  for  which  he  was  at  one  time  financial 
agant.  recoznizing  his  ability  and  scholarly  attainments,  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  M.  k..  pro  merito.  and  the  Wesleyan  conferred  upon 
him  the  divinity  doctorate. 

JESSE    MEHARRY. TRUSTEE    AND    PATRON. 

Jesse  Meharry.  one  of  the  younger  members  of  the  board  of  trustees, 
is  a  prosperous  farmer  and  stock  raiser  of  Tolono.  Illinois.  He  is  a 
native  of  Indiana,  a  son  of  Thomas  Meharry  and  a  nephew  of  Hugh 
Meharry.  Sr.,  and  a  special  friend  of  the  education  of  the  freedman. 

Mr.  Meharry  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  State,  and 
attended  the  old  Asbury  University,  but  did  not  complete  the  course  of 
study,  having  left  the  institution  when  perhaps  a  junior.  He  is  as  quiet 
and  unobtrusive  in  manner  as  General  Grant  was  reputed  to  have  been, 
and  is  blessed  in  a  marked  degree  with  common  sense.  But  few  lay- 
men in  the  Illinois  Conference  are  better  versed  in  Methodist  history 
and  doctrine,  or  are  more  broadly  read  in  the  general  literature  of  the 
day,  and  none  are  m.ore  devoted  to  the  cause  of  Christian  education. 
He  is  a  most  generous  supporter  of  all  the  enterprises  of  the  church, 
and  a  warm  friend  of  the  youth  who  honestly  strive  to  better  their  con- 
dition in  life  and  develop  godly  character  He  is  a  sympathetic,  prudent 
and  wise  counselor,  and  is  most  highly  valued  for  services  rendered  the 
university  during  its  present  administration.  He  is  noted  for  his  hospi- 
tality, and  in  his  elegant  home  we  often  find  rest  and  new  inspiration  for 
the  vexing  problems  ever  arising.     One  cannot  grow  faint-hearted  there. 


DAVID  T.    DOUGLAS.   TRUSTEE   AND   PATRON. 

David  T.  Douglas,  M.  D.,  trustee  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity, was  born  at  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  1842.  He  attended  the 
common  schools  at  Morristown  and  Monroe  until  sixteen  years  of  age, 
when  he  entered  the  Roman  Catholic  parochial  school  and  studied  for 
one  year.  Afterwards  he  spent  three  years  at  St.  Peter's  Episcopal 
school.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  began  reading  law  in  the  office  of 
William  B.  Guild,  Newark.  New  Jersey,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  New  Jersey  in  1864.  In  June,  1864.  he  enlisted  in  Company  B, 
57th  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  and  was  elected  second  lieutenant.  Hav- 
ing come  to  Illinois  in  1866,  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  E. 
Dooley  of  Selma,  Illinois,  and  soon  after  entered  Rush  Medical  College, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  graduating  from  that  institution  in  1871.  He  began 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Selma,  and  a  few  years  afterwards  moved  to 
Colfax,  where  he  built  up  a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  and  has  accu- 
mulated a  competency  of  this  world's  goods. 

He  has  been  a  very  devoted,  conscientious  and  enthusiastic  Chris- 
tian and  member  of  the  Methodist  church  since  1866.  In  1879  he  was 
elected  trustee  by  the  Central  Illinois  Conference,  and  has  rendered  a 
continuous  service  until  this  day. 

Dr.  Douglas  is  a  man  of  keen  perception,  strong  conviction,  gener- 
ous nature,  and  is  identified  with  most  of  the  public  enterprises  of  his 
community,  and  is  thoroughly  loyal  to  the  great  enterprises  of  his  church. 

CHARLES  O.    m'cULLOCH. TRUSTEE. 

Rev.  Charles  O.  McCuUoch,  B.  A.,  M.  A.,  is  serving  his  second  term 
as  trustee  of  the  university,  elected  by  the  Central  Illinois  Conference, 
Mr.  McCulloch  is  a  graduate  of  Hedding  College,  and  has  been  a  leader 
in  his  conference  since  1888,  when  he  led  his  delegation  in  the  General 
Conference  of   that  year,     He  was  also  honored  with  a  re-election  in 


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1892.  He  has  now  the  distinction  of  serving  nine  consecutive  years  in 
the  presiding  eldership.  He  is  scholarly,  gentlemanly,  deeply  spiritual, 
and  possesses  that  most  desirable  quality  of  common  sense  in  a  large 
degree.  His  varied  experience  and  intimate  knowledge  of  the  univer- 
sity render  him  a  most  valuable  patron  of  the  institution. 

JOSEPH    B.    AYRES,   TRUSTEE   AND   PATRON. 

Joseph   B.   Ayres  was  born   in  the  city  of   Bloomington   in  1831, 
reared  upon  a  farm,  and  has  accumulated  a   handsome  property  which 

he  uses  as  a  gift  of  God  with- 
out abusing.  He  is  as  stal- 
wart in  character  as  he  is  in 
form,  and  is  widely  known  as 
a  patron  of  higher  education 
and  a  devoted  friend  of  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 
His  children  have  all  been 
educated  in  the  university  of 
which  he  is  a  trustee,  three  of 
them  having  completed  its 
course  of  study.  He  brings  to 
the  office  of  trustee  integrity 
of  character,  extended  busi- 
ness experience,  and  ready 
perception  of  the  real  condi- 
tion and  needs  of  the  univer- 
sity. Mr.  Ayres  has  been  re- 
josEPH  B.  AYRES.  elected  to  the  office  of  trustee 

and  has  rendered  constant  service  since  1883.  He  is  now  mentioned 
by  the  Republican  party  as  a  probable  candidate  for  State  senator. 


Be/njamin  Ff^a/nklin  Fu^k. 

Trustee  amd  Patron 


Benjamin  Franklin  Funk,  son  of  Isaac  Funk,  was  born  at  Funk's 
Grove,  Illinois,  in  1834.  He  attended  the  illlinois  Wesleyan  University 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  completed  the  work  of  the  sophomore  year. 
In  1862  he  enlisted  in  Company  G.  68th  Illinois  Volunteers.  He  has 
served  three  terms  as  mayor  of  the  city  of  Bloomington.  1871,  1875 
and  1884.  and  it  is  said  justly  that  no  man  has  given  Bloomington  a 
better  administration  of  affairs  than  obtained  under  Mr.  Funk's  mayor- 
alty. He  was  trustee  of  the  Illinois  Asylum  for  the  Blind  from  1883  to 
1893;  and  in  1892  he  was  elected  congressman  for  the  Thirteenth  dis- 
trict, but  was  defeated  for  renomination  by  internal  factions. 

Mr.  Funk  possesses  many  of  those  qualities  of  head  and  heart  which 
made  his  ancestor.  Hon.  Isaac  Funk  a  prominent  character  of  his  dsy. 
His  life  has  been  devoted  to  the  farm,  and  he  has  been  most  success- 
ful as  a  stock  raiser.  His  name  has  been  associated  with  most  of  the 
public  enterprises  of  Bloomington  and  McLean  county  for  many  years, 
and  he  has  from  his  young  manhood  been  a  loyal  patron  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University.  In  1874.  he  was  elected  a  trustee,  and  in  1876 
he  became  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  which  office  he  filled  most 
acceptably  until  his  election  to  congress. 

As  a  presiding  officer,  Mr.  Funk  is  dignified,  alert,  discriminating 
and  impartial.  He  has  a  stalwart  form,  and  is  said  to  resemble  his 
illustrious  father  in  appearance  and  manner.  He  has  resided  in  Bloom- 
ington for  many  years  in  a  beautiful  residence  on  North  Main  Street. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  Grace  church  perhaps  since  it  was  known  as 
the  University  Charge  and  is  its  most  liberal  supporter.  When  in  many 
perilous  as  well  as  embarrassing  places,  he  has  been  among  the  first  to 
lend  to  the  university  the  needed  assistance. 


EEMJAMin  Franxlin   Funk. 


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Wesley  B.  Harvey. 

Trustee  prom  \e,n. 

Wesley  B.  Harvey,  one  of  the  earliest 
settlers  of  Tazewell  county.  Illinois,  was 
born  in  Licking  county,  Ohio,  near  New- 
ark, December  15,  1824.  His  father. 
James  Harvey,  was  a  native  of  Maryland, 
who  in  early  life  moved  to  Virginia,  and 
from  there  to  Ohio.  He  and  a  brother 
rendered  val'ant  service  to  their  country 
in  \\\=  war  of  1812.  and  he  was  also  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Black  Hawk  war.  In  1828  he 
settled  in  Tazewell  county,  being  one  of 
the  first  seven  families  that  located  in 
what  is  now  Washington  township.  Though 
the  lands  at  that  time  were  not  subject  to 
entry,  he  cultivated  two  hundred  and  forty 
acres  within  a  mile  and  a  half  of  the  pres- 
ent site  of  Washington,  trusting  to  the 
local  customs  of  the  country  to  protect 
him  in  his  right.  He  resided  upon  that 
tract  until  1834.  when  he  removed  to 
Deer  Creek  township,  where  he  spent 
twenty  years.  He  died  at  Groveland  in 
1859,  having  spent  three  years  in  Peoria. 
Like  most  of  the  early  settlers,  his 
means  were  lim.ited.  and  none  but  those 
who  have  passed  through  the  ordeal  can 
rea!i::e  the  hardships  endured.    Coffee  and 


tea  were  luxuries  used  only  on  rare  occasions. 


Wesley  B.  Harvey. 


All  clothing  for  summer  and  winter  were  made  by  hand. 
The  covering  for  the  head  was  manufac- 
tured from  the  skin  of  raccoons,  while  the 
shoes  were  made  from  the  skin  of  deer 
and  cattle,  tanned  in  neighboring  tanneries. 
The  people  lived  in  log  cabins  and  were 
quick  to  supply  by  ingenious  devices  all 
actually  necessary  art'cles  for  the  comfort 
of  the  home.  The  furniture  was  largely 
home-made.  Carts,  wagons,  and  even 
the  farm  implements  were  the  product  of 
the  unskilled  mechanic. 

The  paternal  grandfather  of  Wesley  B, 
was  born  on  a  sailing  vessel  on  the  Atlantic 
ocean,  while  his  parents  were  enroute  to 
this  country  from  Scotland.  Wesley  B. 
is  the  second  of  a  family  of  eleven  chil- 
dren, three  sons  and  eight  daughters,  all 
of  whom  but  one  lived  to  mature  years. 
His  boyhood  was  spent  on  the  frontier 
farm,  and  he  received  only  such  limited 
schooling  as  fell  to  the  child  of  that  day. 
At  the  age  of  twenty-one.  as  he  expresses  it, 
empty-handed  and  unaided  he  began  the 
work  of  his  life.  For  some  years  he  en- 
gaged in  farming  with  more  than  ordinary 
success,  but  was  compelled  to  retire  from 
the  farm  on  account  of  poor  health,  and 
has  since  been  engaged  in  real  estate. 
A  Republican  in  politics,  he  has  been 


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to  some  extent  connected  with  public  offices  of  the  city  and  county,  by 
whose  suffrages  he  has  occupied  several  positions  of  honor  and  trust. 
For  ten  years  he  served  as  supervisor  of  his  town.  For  twenty  years  he 
•held  the  office  of  the  justice  of  the  peace. and  for  two  terms  was  mayor 
of  the  city  of  Washington.  In  1850  he  was  elected  to  represent  his  dis- 
trict in  the  State  Legislature,  serving  on  several  important  committees. 

in  December.  1849,  Mr.  Harvey  was  married  to  Miss  Eliza  Bar- 
rett, who  was  born  in  Illinois  and  died  at  Washington  in  1891.  leaving 
no  children.  The  second  marriage  of  this  subject  occurred  in  July. 
1892.  and  united  him  with  Mrs.  N.  F.  Shepard.  a  native  of  New  Jersey, 
who  came  to  this  State  in  childhood. 

Out  of  conditions  considered  adverse  by  most  young  men,  Mr. 
Harvey  developed  a  strong,  self-reliant  character :  industrious  and  eco- 
nomical in  habits;  keen  and  far  seeing  in  business:  conscientiously 
exact  and  righteous  in  his  dealings  with  his  fellow  men:  and  has  accu- 
mulated what  most  of  us  would  regard  a  fortune  in  worldly  possessions. 
His  services  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  university  have 
been,  and  are.  highly  valuable.  He  has  frequently  contributed  money 
as  well  as  time  and  energy  to  its  advancement,  the  largest  gift  being 
$15,000  in  1891.  He  is  a  pure  minded,  public  spirited  man  of  unim- 
peachable character,  a  benefactor  to  his  race. 

THOMAS    DONEY. 

Rev.  Thomas  Doney.  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  is  not  a  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees,  and  yet  has  rendered  such  long  and  efficient  service  as 
visitor  from  the  Central  Illinois  Conference  as  to  make  it  eminently 
proper  to  bear  testimony  hereto  that  service.  He  has  for  several  years 
been  a  member  of  the  standing  committee  on  faculty,  has  also  consci- 
entiously performed  his  duty  as  visitor,  and  for  the  past  six  years  no  one 
has  exercised  a  better  influence   in  the  board  of  trustees  and  before  the 


entire  body  of  students  by  his  visitations  than  has  Mr.  Doney.  The 
winter  of  1895.  at  the  request  of  the  Y.  M.  and  Y.  W.  C.  A.  Associa- 
tions he  held  a  series  of  meetings  in  the  university  hall  in  which  he 
proved  himself  to  be  a  splendid  preacher  and  a  teacher  well  adapted  to 
guide  young,  people  in  spiritual  things. 

He  led  his  delegation  in  the  General  Conference  in  1892.  and  is 
a  real  leader  among  his  people.  He  is  an  Englishman  by  birth  and 
spent  some  months  of   the  present  year  in   his  native  country. 

HYRE   D.   CLARK,  TRUSTEE  AND   PRINCIPAL     PREPARATORY  DEPARTMENT. 

Rev.  Hyre  D.  Clark,  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  the  vigorous  and  successful 
presiding  elder  of  the  Galesburg  district,  is  a  graduate  of  Allegheny 
College.  Soon  after  his  graduation  he  was  elected  principal  of  the  pre- 
paratory school  in  the  summer  of  1883.  which  position  he  held  for  one 
year.  In  1884  he  joined  the  Central  Illinois  Conference,  and  has  served 
nearly  all  its  best  charges.  He  will  lead  the  delegation  of  the  Central 
Illinois  Conference  in  the  next  General  Conference  at  Cleveland,  having 
been  elected  on  the  first  ballot  by  an  unusually  large  vote. 

As  a  scholar,  Mr.  Clark  is  both  thorough  and  accurate,  and  as  a 
preacher  he  is  scholarly,  versatile,  clear  and  vigorous  in  thought,  and  at 
times  manifests  great  oratorical  power.  During  most  of  the  time  since 
1884  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  joint  board  of  trustees  and  visitors, 
and  is  now  serving  his  second  term  as  trustee.  Since  the  appointment 
of  the  standing  committee  on  faculty  four  years  ago.  Mr.  Clark  has  been 
a  member  of  that  committee.  He  is  careful  and  conscientious  in  all 
his  work  as  a  member  of  the  board,  and  brings  to  the  university  a  sound 
mind  and  a  loyal  heart.  As  principal  of  the  preparatory  school  he  dis- 
played accurate  scholarship  and  the  characteristics  of  a  teacher.  It 
would  have  been  the  pleasure  of  the  university  to  have  retained  him  at 
the  head  of  this  most  important  department. 


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Peter  Whitmer. 


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Peter  VHiinER. 

Trustee  from  i878. 


Peter  Whitmer,  president  of  the  Pecple's  bank.  Elccmir^cn.  Illi- 
nois, and  trustee  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  w£s  born  on  a  farm 
in  Franklin  county.  Pennsylvania,  in  1828.  He  attended  the  district 
school  until  sixteen  years  old.  when  he  began  an  apprenticeship  of  five 
years  at  saddlery  and  harness-making.  For  two  years  he  traveled  in 
the  West,  and  then  located  at  Bloomington.  Illinois,  in  1855,  having 
entered  business  with  M.  L.  Moore,  and  later  with  Park  &  Hoops;  soon 
after,  however.  Mr.  Whitmer  engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  in  which 
he  was  most  successfull.  for  seventeen  years.  In  1885  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  People's  bank,  which  office  he  still  holds.  He  was 
also  president  of  the  Chair  Factory  from  1873  to  1885. 

Mr.  Whitmer  is  justly  looked  upon  as  a  man  of  strictest  integrity 
and  of  keen  and  far  reaching  insight  in  business.  He  has  been  promi- 
nently connected  with  the  public  affairs  of  this  city  for  many  years,  and 
is  one  of  the  most  valuable  members  of  the  board  of  trustees.  Whether 
in  business  or  in  society,  he  is  always  suave,  courteous  and  gentlemanly. 
He  is  one  of  the  most  consistent  members  of  the  Christian  church.  He 
has  rendered  continuous  service  on  the  board  since  his  first  election.  1 878. 

JAMES    T.    ORR.   PATRON. 

Rev.  James  T.  Orr.  while  not  trustee  of  the  university,  has  been  a 
member  of  the  joint  board  as  visitor  from  the  Illinois  Conference  for 
many  years.  He  has  known  the  institution  since  its  organization  and 
made  a  contribution  to  its  endowment  the  first  year  of  his  ministry  which 
was  a  large  per  cent  of  his  entire  earnings  for  the  year.  Thoroughly 
acquainted  with  its  business,  he  is  one  of  its  most  efficient  supporters. 
For  several  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Faculty  committee. 


JOSEPH   S.  GUMMING.  TRUSTEE  AND  PATROr'. 

Joseph  S.  Gumming,  A.  M..   D.   D.,  was  born   in   Abingdon,  Vir- 
ginia. April  28,  1832.      His  father,  then  a  member  of  Holston  Confer- 
ence, came  to  Illinois  in  1834.  and  was  a  member  of  the  Central  Illinois 
Conference  when  he  died,  in  1889. 
Joseph   S.  was  educated  at   Rock 
River  Seminary.   Mt.   Morris.  Illi- 
nois, at  that  time  the  only  school  for 
young  men  m  the  Methodist  church 
north  of  McKendree  College.  Leb- 
anon,  Illinois.      He    taught  school 
most  of  the  time  during  four  years, 
and  kept  up  with  his  classes  at  the 
same  time. 

In  1852.  when  a  little  more  than 
twenty  years  old.  he  was  married 
to  Miss  Margaret  Reed  Maris,  of 
Washington.  Illinois,  and  in  1853 
he  joined  the  Rock  River  Confer- 
ence. In  1868  Quincy  College 
gave  him  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts,  and  in  1883  Iowa  Wesleyan 
University  conferred  upon  him  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity.  He 
was  assistant  secretary  cf  the  Central  Illinois  Conference  ten  years,  and 
secretary  five  years.  He  was  a  member  o'  three  General  Conferences, 
1868.  1872  and  1884. 

Of  the  forty-one  years  of  his  ministry  he  spent  twenty-three  in  the 
regular  pastorate,  serving  nearly  a'l  the  best  churches  in  his  conferencs, 
fourteen  years  on    the    district   as   presiding   elder,  and   four  years   as 


JOSEPH   S.   GUMMING. 


ILLINOIS    WESLEY  AN    UNIVERSITY. 


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president  of  Hedding  College.  Abingdon,  Illinois.  He  is  now  the  de- 
serving and  popular  pastor  of  the  church  at  Moline.  Illinois. 

His  patriotism  is  pronounced;  his  ideals  in  State  pure  and  lofty. 
He  affiliated  with  the  Republican  party  in  pD'itics  until  1834,  when  he 
became  a  party  Prohibitionist,  being  convinced  that  purer  motives  and 
higher  ends  should  control  in  national  politics. 

As  a  preacher  he  is  clear,  practical  and  thoroughly  evangelistic; 
as  a  pastor,  methodical,  systematic  and  untiring  in  his  zeal  for  the  wel- 
fare of  his  flock.  In  business,  he  is  prompt,  accurate  and  wise.  It  will 
be  seen  from  this  record  that  he  has  been  officially  connected  with  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University  as  visitor  or  trustee  during  the  greater  part 
of  the  time  of  his  ministry,  giving  it  untiring  energy  and  a  loyal   heart. 

His  home  has  been  a  model  minister's  home,  from  which  the  wife 
of  his  youth  was  taken  in  1893,  but  which  is  still  blessed  by  the  presence 
of  a  daughter.  Two  daughters  reside  in  Monmouth,  one  other  at  Mo- 
line, and  the  only  son,  Frank  H.,  of  the  class  of  1876,  is  the  pastor  of 
the  First  Methodist  church  at  Streator.  Illinois. 

JAMES  p.   DIMMITT,  TRUSTEE  AND  FINANCIAL  AGENT. 

James  P.  Dimmitt.  one  of  God's  true  noblemen,  was  born  in  Ohio 
in  1812.  Having  secured  a  fair  English  education,  he  was  obedient  to 
convictions  of  duty  to  preach,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  Confer- 
ence in  1842.  As  a  minister  he  possessed  a  diversity  of  talents,  pass- 
ing with  ease  from  the  pastorate  of  a  country  circuit  to  the  best  charges 
in  the  city  or  from  the  circuit  to  a  district,  or  from  a  district  to  the 
station,  achieving  success  in  whatever  position  he  was  placed,  and  at 
times,  as  at  First  Church,  Decatur,  Illinois,  overcoming  the  almost  im- 
possible. He  was  deeply  religious,  broadly  charitable,  always  affable 
and  courteous,  and  at  times  rose  to  true  eloquence  in  his  pulpit  efforts. 
He  was  a  man  of  God  who  sought  to  add  to  the  sum  of  hum.an  happiness. 


DENNIS  KENYON,  TRUSTEE  AND  PATRON. 

Dennis  Kenyon,  trustee,  was  born  in  Rhode  Island  in  1833,  and 
came  to  Illinois  in  1840  and  settled  in  Mt.  Hope  township,  McLean 
county,  Illinois,  where  he  has  la'^e  landed  interests.  In  chil  ihood  he 
attended  the  subscription 
schools,  which  afforded  him 
all  the  educational  advantages 
received.  In  1852  he  entered 
the  mines  of  California,  where 
for  a  year  and  a  half  he  was 
engaged  in  search  of  gold.  He 
was  commissioned  lieutenant 
in  Company  A,  1  17th  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served 
until  1864.  He  is  gentle- 
manly and  conscientious  in  his 
dealings  with  his  fellow  men, 
energetic,  skillful  and  success- 
ful in  business.  Since  1886 
he  has  been  a  trustee  of  the 
university  and  has  given  liber- 
ally to  its  support.  His  coun- 
sel is  sought  in  all  plans  for 
the  prosperity  of  the  institution. 
Mr.  Kenyon  has  filled  many 
local  offices  of  trust,  and  exerts  a  great  influence  in  State  and  national 
assemblies  in  the  interests  of  agriculture.  While  not  liberally  eiuca'ed. 
he  possesses  a  strong  mind  and  is  quick  to  perceive  and  ready  to  dis- 
criminate between  the  false  and  true.  Though  business  calls  him  away 
from  home,  he  never  neglects  home  interests  or  forgets  the  little  country 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH   AND   ALUMNI   RECORD. 


churc  1  to  which  he  has  hesn  devoted  as  a  consistent  Christian  for  years. 
Mrs.    Kenyon   is   a  well   educated  wcnan  of   culture  and  refined 
tastes,  fully  in  sympathy  with  her  husbands  interests  in  the  university. 
It  is  a  pleasure  to  visit  their  home  and  receive  their  royal  hospitality. 

GEORGE   R.   PALMER.  TRUSTEE. 

Rev.  George  R.  Palmer,  editor  and  publisher  at  Onarga.  Illinois, 
Is  one  of  the  strong  and  serviceable  men  elected  trustee  by  the  Central 
Illinois  Conference,  first  in  1876.  and  remained  in  office  until  1885, 
having  served  three  full  terms.  He  was  again  charged  with  the  duties 
of  trustee  in  1890.  and  continues  in  office. 

He  is  a  man  of  commanding  presence,  six  feet  and  more  in  height, 
stoutly  built  and  in  excellent  health;  his  reading  has  been  extensive  and 
to  a  purpose,  his  perception  is  keen,  his  reasoning  power  is  of  a  high 
order,  and  his  speech  is  fluent  and  powerful.  As  a  preacher  he  is  fluent, 
instructive  and  efficient.  His  sermons  show  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
history  and  literature.  He  is  a  ready  and  fearless  debater,  shrewd  and 
witty,  and  in  conversation  he  is  most  interesting.  In  politics  he  is  an 
old  type  Republican,  exerts  a  commanding  influence  in  the  councils  of  his 
party,  and  has  been  urged  to  stand  for  election  to  congress. 

ZADOC  HALL,  TRUSTEE,    1863-78. 

Rev.  Zadoc  Hall  was  born  in  Sussex  county,  Delaware,  1801, 
and.  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-eight,  years  he  was  gathered  unto  his 
fathers  on  Easter  day.  His  father  died  when  Zadoc  was  but  nine  years 
old.  and  his  youth  and  young  manhood  was  one  of  toil  and  struggle  to 
earn  a  livelihood  and  get  an  education.  His  education  was  limited, 
though  he  was  well  versed  in  history  and  was  familiar  with  the  best 
ecclesiastical  thought.     Under  the  ministry  of  Thomas  A.  Morris,  after- 


wards one  of  the  bishops  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Cchurch.  he  was 
awakened  and  quickened  into  a  life  of  conscious  communion  with  God, 
and  from  his  early  m.anhood  it  may  be  truly  said  that  he  ••  walked  with 
God."  Having  entered  the  ministry,  he  came  to  Illinois  from  near 
Zanesville,  Ohio,  where  in  his  childhood  the  family  had  settled,  and  in 
1832  becam.e  a  member  of  the  old  Illinois  Conference.  In  the  subdi- 
vision of  the  territory  of  the  conference  he  fell  to  the  Rock  River  and 
finally  the  Central,  of  which  he  was  a  member  at  his  death.  In  1834 
he  was  appointed  to  the  Blooming  Grove  (Bloomington)  Circuit,  and 
with  the  aid  of  such  laymen  as  James  Miller  and  John  Moore,  erected 
the  first  Methodist  church  in  Bloomington. 

In  stature  he  was  about  five  feet  ten  inches,  and  in  1870  stood  per- 
fectly erect.  He  was  a  m.an  of  refined  tastes  as  well  as  of  elevated 
moral  sentiment,  modest,  exceedingly  kind  of  heart,  and  greatly  attached 
to  the  Wesleyan. 

HENRY    SUMMERS,  TRUSTEE,    1855-61. 

Of  the  many  m.en  whose  truly  heroic  lives  are  woven  into  the  in- 
stitutions, civil  and  religious,  of  Illinois,  and  who  contributed  to  the 
founding  of  the  university.  Rev.  Henry  Summers  is  not  the  least. 

He  was  born  of  German  parentage  in  West  Virginia,  in  1801,  and 
at  the  age  of  twenty  entered  upon  the  ministry  of  the  gospel.  He  was 
twice  chosen  to  represent  his  conference  in  the  General  Conference, 
1852  and  1856,  and  for  thirty-one  years  served  as  presiding  elder,  per- 
forming the  functions  of  his  office  with  godly' judgment,  devotion,  and 
skill.  It  was  written  of  him  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1883  :  "Of 
courage,  his  life  was  a  fountain;  of  pure,  manly  dignity,  an  unexplored 
deep;  so  imbued  with  simplicity  and  inspired  by  true  modesty,  that 
children  were  at  home  in  his  presence,  and  men  of  eminent  name  rec- 
ognized in  him  a  peer." 


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JAMES    HARRISON    BUNN.  TRUSTEE    AND    PATRON. 

James  Harrison  Bunn,  trustee  from  the  Central  Illinois  conference, 
was  born  in  Ross  county,  Ohio,  in  1830.  From  childhood  he  has  been 
an    active,    enthusiastic,    and     consistent    member    of    the    Methodist 

Episcopal  church.  He  has  seryed 
in  the  various  offices  requiring 
ability,  foresight,  and  religion  of  its 
laity,  beginning  as  a  class  leader  at 
the  age  of  nineteen  ;  was  a  most 
successful  superintendent  in  Ohio, 
and  also  at  La  Salle,  Illinois,  before 
his  residence  in  Peoria,  which  he 
begun  in  1854.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  official  board  of  the 
First  Church,  Peoria,  for  thirty- 
nine  years,  and  superintendent  of 
the  Sunday  school  for  nine  years. 
He  is  president  of  the  American 
Bible  Society  for  Peoria  county, 
and  is  an  able  director  of  the  Y.  M. 
C,  A.  of  his  city.  He  represented 
the  Central  Illinois  conference  in 
the  General  Conference  of  1892 
He  is  a  liberal  supporter  of  the 
enterprises  of  his  local  church,  of  its  general  benevolent  and  educational 
interests.  He  has  for  many  years  been  an  efficient  and  worthy  trustee 
of  the  Illinois  Wes'.eyan  University,  serving  on  some  of  its  most  im- 
portant committees. 

He  is  engaged  in  the  grain  business  in  Peoria,  where  he  has  acquired 
a  competency  which    h3  uses  liberally  in  doing  good  to  his  fellow  men. 


JO^'ATHAN    TOTTEN.       SEE   PAGE  45. 


GEORGE    RUTLEDGE,  TRUSTEE,    1864-70. 

Among  the  foremost  men  who  laid  the  foundations  of  the  present 
civilization  in  Illinois  was  Rev.  George  Rutledge,  who  was  born  in  Vir- 
ginia, in  1811.  Left  fatherless  at  the  age  of  thirteen  and  being  the 
eldest  child  of  the  family,  great  responsibilities  toward  his  mother  and 
her  fatherless  children  were  met  with  unusual  fidelity. 

The  advantages  offered  for  an  education  were  well  improved  and 
he  gained  a  good  English  education.  He  was  converted  at  the  age  of 
twenty  and  began  preaching  in  the  Baltimore  Conference  in  1833.  but 
in  1835  was  transferred  to  Illinois,  where  he  was  eminent  in  labors  with 
Akers,  Cartwright,  Buck,  Prentice,  and  others,  of  whom  the  world  was 
not  worthy.  He  was  a  man  universally  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  him., 
and  most  by  those  who  knew  him  best.  He  came  nearly  causing  his 
inner  life  to  conform  absolutely  to  his  outer  expression  and  profession; 
hence  he  was  proverbially  kind  and  charitable,  of  even  temperament. 
and  of  clever  judgment. 

He  was  jealously  devoted  to  the  educational  polity  of  his  church, 
believing  that  all  truth  is  from  God  and  that  the  youth  of  the  church 
should  be  educated  under  the  purest  environment,  if  manhood  is  to  be 
in  harmony  with  the  law  of  God.  The  Illinois  Female  College  at  Jack- 
sonville  never  had  a  more  zealoas  advocate  or  warmer  friend,  and  unto 
him  a  great  debt  of  gratitude  is  due  from  the  present  generation  for 
truly  heroic  struggles  in  behalf  of  that  institution.  He  was  as  true  to 
the  Wesleyan,  and  as  trustee  and  visitor  brought  to  it  sound  judgment 
and  a  fervent  spirit.  He  had  one  son  complete  its  course  of  study, 
Rev.  Wm.  N.,  of  the  class  of  1868.  who  is  an  honored  member  of  the 
Illinois  conference.  His  character  and  services  called  for  a  special 
sermon  before  his  conference,  which  was  preached  by  Dr.  Hiram  Bu:k 
and  v/as  considered  one  of  the  greatest  sermons  ever  delivered  before 
that  body. 


George  P.   Davis. 


ILUNCIS    W  MBYAN    UNIVhRSITY. 


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Qeorje  p.  Davis, 

TrvUSTEE  RND  Patron 

Hon.  George  P.  Davis.  M.  A.,  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  having  been 
born  in  Bloomington.  in  1842.  He  is  an  only  son  of  the  late  David 
Davis,  the  well  known  jurist  and  statesman.  At  the  early  age  of  ten 
Mr.  Davis  was  sent  from  his  ancestral  city  to  a  private  boarding  school 
which  was  under  the  supervision  of  Deacon  Hyde,  at  Lee,  Massachu- 
setts, but  remained  for  two  years  only,  when  he  returned  to  Bloomington 
and  spent  one  year  in  the  Illinois  Wesleyan,  whose  preparatory  school 
t  ad  been  opened  but  a  short  time  before.  He  was  then  placed  in  the 
preparatory  department  of  Beloit  College,  Wisconsin,  and  having  com- 
pleted its  course,  entered  Beloit  College  and  pursued  his  studies  until 
r  ady  for  the  junior  year,  when  he  went  to  Williams  College  and  was 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1864.  After  graduation  he  returned  to  Bloom- 
i  igton  and  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  W.  H.  Hanna  :  but 
at't-^r  two  years  of  study  and  office  work,  he  entered  the  law  school  of 
Michigan  University  and  took  its  LL.  B.  degree  in  1867.  Having  be=n 
admitted  to  the  bar.  he  entered  at  once  upon  the  practice  of  law  wiih 
Mr.  Hanna,  but  within  two  years  abandoned  the  practice,  finding  that 
the  care  of  his  father's  extensive  business  required  all  his  time  and 
energy. 

In  1869  he  was  married  to  Miss  Ella  Hanna.  of  Attica,  Indian^. 
Three  children  have  blessed  this  union:  Mrs.  Dr.  E.  Wyllis  Andrews, 
of  Chicago,  and  two  sons,  David  and  Mercer.  Mr.  Davis  resides  in  the 
elegant  mansion  erected  by  Judge  Davis  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  city 
of  Bloomingcon.  He  is  now  serving  his  third  term  as  trustee  of  the 
university,  is  a  member  of  the  finance  and  of  the  tuildings  and  grounds 
committees.  His  long  and  varied  experience  with  public  buildings,  his 
extended  private  business  in  addition  to  his  natural  qualifications  admi- 


rably fit  him  for  the  services  of  inestimable  value  which  he  renders  the 
institution.     The  present  administration  has  not  had  the  support  of  a 

more  liberal  patron. 

CHARLES    AND    HENRIETTA    CRAMP.    PATRONS. 

Charles  and  Mrs.  Henrietta  Cramp,  whose  names  have  appeared 
in  the  publications  of  the  University  since  1884,  were  first  interested  in 
the  institution  by  President  Adams  and  Mrs.  Olga  Updegraff,  who  for  a 
number  of  years  rendered  most  excellent  service  as  agent  for  the  Wo- 
man's Educational  Association,  and  later  as  superintendent  of  Henrietta 
Hall. 

Mr.  Cramp,  the  eldest  of  ten  children,  was  born  in  Surrey.  Eng- 
land. 1827.  In  1832  his  parents  emigrated  to  Canada  and  from  there 
to  New  York  in  1834.  Still  obedient  to  the  spirit  of  enterprise,  they 
settled  in  southern  Illinois,  near  Bunker  Hill,  in  1834.  where  Charles 
grew  to  manhood. 

In  his  youth  he  was  subjected  to  all  the  privations  and  perils  of 
those  pioneer  days,  and  the  education  gained  was  from  contact  with 
men  and  a  few  standard  books,  without  the  guidance  of  a  teacher, 
though  it  is  said  that  all  other  members  of  his  father's  fan-.ily  were  sent 
to  the  schools.  One  brother  is  an  honored  member  of  the  southern  Il- 
linois conference.  In  1841  he  moved  to  Shipman,  Illinois,  and  in  1865 
10  a  farm  near  Macon.  Illinois.  He  has  been  successful  in  all  his  busi- 
ness enterprises,  and  wherever  he  lived  his  influence  has  been  most 
potent  for  the  social,  moral,  and  religious  development  of  society.  The 
year  1849  marks  two  most  significant  events  in  his  life,  his  recognition 
of  the  claims  of  God  upon  his  affection  and  service  and  his  union  in  holy 
wedlock  with  Henrietta  Hopson.  with  whom  alone  he  has  walked  until 
this  day. 

Henrietta  Maria  Hopson  was  born  in  Saulsbury   Center,   Herkimer 


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county.  1815.  She  was  given  an  excellent  education  which  she  put  to 
the  best  uses.  She  was  a  precocious  child  and  advanced  phenomenally 
in  her  studies  :  at  the  age  of  fourteen  and  for  several  years  afterward 
she  taught  school  at  the  place  of  her  birth.  After  coming  to  Illinois 
and  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Cramp  she  taught  and  adm.itted  colored  chil- 
dren on  the  same  terms  given  to  white.  She  is  a  broad,  liberal  minded 
woman,  and  whether  in  the  school  room  or  on  the  farm  making  cheese 
with  her  own  hands  from  one  hundred  and  sixteen  cows,  gentleness,  re- 
finement, energy,  and  goodness  have  characterized  her  life. 

In  1884  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cramp  gave  four  thousand  dollars  toward 
the  purchase  of  the  Major's  College  property,  and  in  grateful  recognition 
of  this  benefaction  the  Woman's  Educational  Association  declared  that 
the  hall  should  be  known  as  the  Henrietta  Hall.  They  were  watchful 
of  the  interests  of  the  Association  so  long  as  it  existed  and  were  an  in- 
spiration to  it  in  all  its  work.  It  was  about  this  time  also  that  President 
Adams  interested  them  in  an  effort  to  increase  the  endowment  of  the 
university.  His  presentation  ot  the  merits  of  the  cause  led  them  to  be- 
lieve that  they  could  not  find  a  cause  in  aiding  which  they  would  do 
greater  good,  and  perpetually,  after  their  death.  Hence  they  executed 
a  warranty  deed  to  four  hundred  acres  of  rich  farm  land  situated  near 
Macon.  Illinois,  in  favor  of  the  trustees  of  the  university,  to  aid  in  en- 
dowing the  Charles  Cramp  Professorship  of  Belles  Lettres.  the  trustees 
agreeing  to  pay  an  annuity  to  the  the  donors  during  their  natural  lives. 
Soon  after  this  transfer  of  property  our  friends  bought  properly  in 
Bloomington.  where  they  have  since  resided,  and  most  all  the  time 
have  kept  one  or  more  students  in  college.  Some  of  them  have  gradu- 
ated and  are  filling  prominent  stations  in  life  with  honor  to  their  alma 
mater,  but  the  greatest  credit  is  due  to  these  godly  people  who  made  an 
education  possible  to  them.  To  live  well  and  to  inspire  others  and  make 
It  possible  for  them  to  do  so  is  the  greatest  achievement. 


WILLIAM    N.   DEVER.  TRUSTEE  AND  PATRON. 

William  N.  Dever,  born  in  Marion  county,  Ohio,  1832.  came  to 
Illinois  in  childhood,  and  availed  himself  of  the  best  advantages  afforded 
at  that  early  day  for  an  education.  By  patient  industry  and  economy 
he  has  acquired  a  competency 
of  this  world's  goods.  He  has 
spent  most  of  his  life  upon  the 
farm,  having  spent  six  years 
as  a  hardware  merchant.  He 
is  an  earnest  and  devoted 
member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  and  regards 
the  university  as  one  of  her 
great  enterprises.  He  has 
served  for  many  years  upon 
the  board  of  trustees.  He 
married  L.  E.  Marrs  in  1858, 
but  of  this  union  there  are  no 
children.  Two  orphan  chil- 
dren, however,  have  found  in 
them  friends  next  to  parents, 
haying  been  cared  for  as  ten- 
derly and  carefully  by  the  foster 
parents  as   if  they  were  their 

own.     Mr.  Dever  is  very  mod-  william  n.  dever. 

est  and  unassuming,  but  of  positive  convictions  and  of  moral  courage. 
He  has  large  landed  interests  in  Illinois  and  Nebraska,  but  has  resided 
in  Bloomington  for  several  years  and  is  a  member  of  Grace  church. 

Mr,   Dever  was  one  of  the   largest  individual   contributors  to  the 
$30,0C0  raised  to  meet  the  conditions  of  Buck's  last  gift  of  $15.C00. 


ILLINOIS    WE5LL-YAN    UNlVhh'SITY. 


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HUGH    MEHARRY,    PATRON. 

The  name  Meharry  is  a  Methodist  household  word,  especially  in 
Ohio.  Indiana,  Illinois,  and  among  the  colored  people  of  America  where 
the  benefactions  of  one  or  more  of  several  brothers  of  that  name  have 
strengthened  the  weak,  succored 
the  destitute,  and  established  en- 
terprises whose  humane  influ- 
ences will  extend  to  remote 
generations.  Of  these  strong, 
godly  men,  none  were  more  con- 
spicuous for  common  sense,  busi- 
ness sagacity  and  integrity,  and 
loyalty  to  the  benevolent  and  ed- 
ucational enterprises  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church  than  was 
Hugh,  the  eldest. 

He  was  born  at  Ccnnersville, 
Pa.,  Feb.  12,  1797,  but  in  child- 
hood removed  with  his  parents  to 
Adams  county,  Ohio,  In  early 
youth  he  was  left  fatherless,  his 
father  having  been  killed  by  the 
falling  of  a  tree,  while  returning 
home  from  a  campmeeting.  The 
mother,  who  was  a  woman  of  ex-  much   meharry, 

traordinary  strength  of  character,  taught  these  boys  the  dignity  and 
nobility  of  labor,  and  the  prime  virtues  of  industry,  sobriety,  honesty,  and 
obedience  to  God. 

In  1828,  Hugh,  guided  by  true  business  instinct,  emigrated  to  Indi- 
ana and  settled  near  Shawnee  Mound,  where  by  industry,  economy,  and 


foresight  manifested  in  buying  cheap  lands  at  an  early  day.  he  became 
wealthy.  At  a  later  day.  but  before  capital  was  bold  enough  to  invest 
in  thes3  low  lands,  he  prospected  in  Illinois  and  invested  largely  in  the 
prairies  of  Ford  and  Champaign  counties.  It  was  by  such  means  that 
he  was  able-to  give  so  largely  to  the  Church  and  at  the  same  tim.e  gi\e 
large  farms  to  each  of  his  several  children.  His  greatest  individual 
benefaction  was  to  Central  Tennessee  College.  Nashville.  Tenn..  for 
which  he  endowed  a  professorship.  The  next  greatest  gift  was  a  farm 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  located  in  McLean  county.  Illinois, 
which  he  deeded  to  the  trustees  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 
His  children,  Mrs,  Robert  Blackstock,  Frank  and  Charles  Meharry. and 
Mrs.  John  A.  Kumler,  have  also  liberally  patronized  the  univcsity. 

F"or  several  years  before  his  death,  the  wife  of  his  youth  having 
passed  on  before,  he  made  his  home  with  his  children  in  Illinois.  At 
the  advanced  age  of  eighty-four  years,  while  on  a  visit  to  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  Kumler.  at  Bement,  Illinois,  he  was  gathered  unto  his  fathers  in 
December,  1881.  He  was  a  friend  to  all  the  churches  and  a  consistent 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  for  sixty-nine  years. 

THE   ANDERSON    SCHOLARSHIP. 

Some  few  years  ago  the  trustees  authorized  the  president  to  estab- 
lish perpetual  scholarships  on  the  cash  payment  of  a  sum  not  less  than 
one  thousand  dollars.  Anyone  contributing  one  thousand  dollars  for  this 
purpose  may  designate  the  name  of  the  scholarship  for  all  time  to  come 
and  also  the  beneficiary  of  the  fund.  We  would  call  attention  to  this 
fact,  as  it  affords  an  opportunity  for  persons  of  small  means  to  perpetuate 
a  beloved  name  and  at  the  same  time  aid  some  worthy  youth  to  get  an 
education  who  otherwise  would  be  unable  even  to  enter  college.  While 
no  special  effort  has  been  made  to  secure  such  gifts,  a  few  persons  have 
availed  themselves  of  the  offer.     Among  the  first  to  do  so  was  William 


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W.  Anderson,  of  Taylorville.  Illinois,  a  man  whose  memory  will  long  be 
cherished  by  those  who  were  fortunate  enough  to  know  him.  He  was 
one  of  God's  noblemen  who  was  sent  to  the  prairies  of  Illinois  at  an  early 
day  to  pre-empt  them  for  the  high- 
est Christian  civilization.  In  busi- 
ness, he  succeeded  as  but  few  of  his 
day  and  under  his  conditions.  His 
power  of  great  physical  endurance, 
resolute  will,  calm  judgment  and 
deep  moral  conviction  made  him  a 
conspicuous  person  in  his  commun- 
ity. He  was  one  of  the  most  enter- 
prising men  of  Christian  county. 
always  on  the  right  side  of  great 
questions,  and  a  pillar  in  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  church. 

For  some  years  previous  to  his 
death  he  had  practically  retired  from 
business,  turning  his  large  banking 
and  farming  business  over  to  his  son 
Fred,  in  whom  he  confided  perfectly 
and  who  promises  to  be  a  worthy 
son  of  his  father.  May  the  mantle 
of  William  W.  Anderson,  the  patron  of  the  Wesleyan.  fall  upon  him. 

WILLIAM   N.  COLER,  TRUSTEE  AND  PATRON. 

The  name  of  W.  N.  Coler  will  be  always  remembered  in  connection 
with  Amie  Chapel.  At  an  hour  when  help  was  most  needed,  he  gave 
$5,000  toward  finishing  the  chapel  in  the  building  erected  in  1870,  and 
in  recognition  of  the  gift  the  chapel  was  called  Amie,  after   his  mother. 


WILLIAM  W.  ANDERSON. 


JOHN  REED,  TRUSTEE  AND  TREASURER. 

Of  all  the  local  officers  of  the  university.  Colonel  John  Reed,  Treas- 
urer since  1878,  will  be  remembered  by  the  largest  number  of  students. 
He  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  havirg  been  born  in  Ross  county  in  1828.  His 
early  education  was  obtained 
in  the  common  schools  and 
at  Salem  Academy,  Salem, 
Ohio.  Having  been  brought 
up  to  agricultural  pursuits,  he 
followed  farming  until  1865, 
when  he  entered  upon  a  suc- 
cessful mercantile  career.  In 
1868  he  moved  to  Blooming- 
ton,  Illinois,  and  forming  a 
partnership  with  Mr.  Barger 
under  the  style  of  Reed  & 
Barger,  importers  and  jobbers 
in  queensware,  glassware,  etc., 
did  a  most  extensive  and  suc- 
cessful business  until  1890, 
when  Mr.  Reed  opened  a  real 
estate  office  and  has  until  this 
time  continued  in  that  busi- 
ness. He  has  held  many  of- 
fices of  trust,  serving  one  term 
as  mayor  of  Bloomington,  giv- 
ing the  city  a  clear,  honest  and  able  administration.  He  has  been 
identified  with  many  public  enterprises  of  the  city,  and  in  whatever 
capacity  he  has  served  the  public,  energy  and  honesty  have  character- 
ized  his  services.      In  politics  he   is  a  Republican  and   in   religion   a 


JOHN    REED. 


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Methodist,  having  been  a  member  of  Grace  church  since  coming  to 
Bioomington.  He  is  an  enthusiastic  member  of  the  G.  A.  R..  having 
served  as  colonel  of  the  First  Regiment.  Ross  County.  Ohio,  Militia, 
and  was  called  into  national  service  July  13.  1863. 

Colonel  Reed  has  been  tireless  in  his  service  for  the  university  as 
treasurer  since  his  first  election  in  1878.  He  annually  renders  a  ser- 
vice worth  ten  times  the  small  amount.  $300,  which  he  receives  as 
compensation.  It  is  due  him  that  the  public  should  know  that  his  ser- 
vices have  been  practically  gratuitous  since  his  first  connection  with  the 
organization. 

JOHN  A.    KUMLER.  TRUSTEE  AND  PATRON. 

No  historical  sketch  of  the  university  would  be  complete  without 
mention  of  John  A.  Kumler.  M.  A.  Born  of  German  parents  in  Butler 
county,  Ohio,  April  20,  1838,  he  was  given  superior  advantages  for  an 
education  which  were  fully  improved.  If  birth  and  environment  are  potent 
elements  in  the  formation  of  character,  John  was  twice  blessed,  for  both 
were  in  his  favor,  being  well  born  and  surrounded  by  the  purest  influ- 
ences. But  after  giving  full  credit  to  these  elements,  much  more  in 
this  case  is  due  to  his  constitutive  power  of  self-determination.  It  is 
but  just  to  say.  howerer.  that  upon  coming  into  full  possession  of  self, 
he  recognized  the  value  of  these  preconditions  and  chose  to  deter- 
mine his  character  in  harmony  with  these  initial  tendencies.  In  youth, 
lofty  ideals  were  formed,  and  with  pure  motives,  goaded  by  an  exalted 
ambition  to  conform  outwardly  and  inwardly  to  these  ideals,  he  recog- 
nized God's  claim  to  his  affection  and  the  energies  of  his  being,  became 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  an  honored  disciple  of 
Jesus  Christ,  whom  he  strives  to  em.ulate  in  word,  deed  and  spirit. 

He  entered  Otterbein  University,  where  he  pursued  and  completed 
the   full   classical   course,  with   credit   to   himself,  and   his  subsequent 


career  has  honored  the  institution  which  conferred  upon  him  the  Bacca- 
laureate and  Master's  degrees.  After  completing  his  collegiate  course 
of  study  he  entered  the  law  school  of  Michigan  University,  and.  com- 
pleting its  course,  received  its  degree  of  LL.  B.  He  at  once  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  law  at  Danville,  Illinois,  having  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Marquis  D.  Hawes,  who 
afterward,  like  Mr.  Kumler,  aban- 
doned the  practice  of  law  for  the 
ministry  of  the  gospel  and  became 
somewhat  noted  for  his  abilities 
and  services.  It  is  said  of  Mr. 
Kumler  that,  as  a  lawyer,  he  pre- 
vented litigation  in  the  courts 
rather  than  added  to  the  courts' 
business  and  the  costs  to  client 
and  taxes  to  the  State.  He  did  not 
long  practice  civil  law,  however, 
but  in  obedience  to  the  divine  call, 
became  an  advocate  of  man's 
rights  and  equity  under  redemptive 
grace  and  entered  upon  the  minis- 
try of  the  gospel  in  the  IllinoisCon- 
ference  in  1868.  Here  his  legal 
knowledge  and  experience  has 
been  an  element  of  strength  to 
himself  and  of  great  value  to  the 

church,  as   his  opinions  upon  legal  points  have  been  and  are  in  great 
demand,  and  his  advice  when  followed  has  proved  its  wisdom. 

He  has  served  many  charges  and  has  been  invariably  successful : 
but    his  service   to    Me.ncdism   in   Bloom.ington   in  securing  a  church 


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location  and  building  for  the  University  Charge,  now  Grace  Church,  and 
his  Herculean  task  of  freeing  the  Second  Church,  Springfield,  from  its 
crushing  debt,  is  especially  praiseworthy.  I  am  told  by  a  friend  that  he 
contributed  two  thousand  dollars  towards  the  liquidation  of  this  debt.  His 
six  years  of  service  as  presiding  elder  also  called  into  action  his  special 
acquisitions,  and  in  this  office  none  excelled  him  in  conscientious  and 
careful  devotion  to  the  interests  committed  to  him.  He  will  represent 
his  conference  in  the  General  Conference  in  May.  1896. 

Mr.  Kumler  was  elected  trustee  of  the  university  in  1879,  and  still 
serves  it  faithfully,  ever  alert  to  increase  its  power  and  efficiency.  As 
son-in-law  to  Hugh  Meharry,  to  whom  he  was  also  a  trusted  counselor 
in  business,  some  credit  is  doubtless  due  him  for  the  generous  gift  of 
Mr.  Meharry. 


In  those  days  when  the  question  with  the  infant  school  was  '-to  be 
or  not  to  be,"  many  others  contributed  money  and  influence  of  whom 
mere  mention  only  can  be  made.  Notable  among  them  were  Jesse  W. 
Fell,  of  Quaker  stock,  the  accomplished  and  cultured  gentleman,  quick- 
witted lover  of  his  fellow  men,  and  advocate  of  education,  who  served 
as  trustee  from  1851  to  1856;  his  brother  Kersey,  the  man  who  first 
thought  of   making  Abraham   Lincoln   president,  trustee  from    1850  to 


1855:  Reuben  Andrus,  the  large-hearted  Christian  scholar;  William  C. 
Goodtellow,  trustee  and  teacher  until  1855;  Lewis  Bunn.  the  youngest 
but  three  of  a  family  of  twenty-one  children,  the  honest,  jovial  and 
genial  blacksmith,  trustee  from  1850  to  1855;  John  VanCleve,  of 
Southern  Illinois  fame,  where  his  name  is  as  ointment  poured  forth; 
William  J.  Rutlege,  the  generous  and  kind,  a  wal'ung  encyclopedia  of 
Wesieyan  poetry,  trustee  from  1850  to  1856.  Hon,  John  Moore,  the 
sturdy  English  wheelwright,  charming  conversationalist,  honest  treasurer 
of  the  Commonwealth  of  Illinois,  trustee  from  1851  to  1856;  Clinton  W. 
Sears,  arduous  in  labors,  hopeful  under  greatest  discouragements,  and 
conscientious  and  able  as  teacher  or  administrator  from  1852  to  1856; 
John  Luccock,  invincible  in  logic,  the  champion  of  truth,  trustee  from 
1855  to  1861;  George  W.  Fairbank,  eloquent  and  godly;  Richard  H. 
Holder,  the  naturalist  who  contributed  so  largely  to  the  museum  ;  Ben- 
jamin F.  Harris.  David  McWilliams  and  George  Funk,  the  great  finan- 
ciers ;  James  D.  Sconce,  the  shrewd  and  honest  farmer  of  long  foresight ; 
Charles  W.  Holder,  Vergil  S.  Lindsey,  David  Smith,  Melvin  C.  Soule, 
Dwight  L.  Parker,  John  I.  Riniker,  C.  S.  Aldrich,  I.  P.  McDowell, 
J.  B.  Sargeant,  John  C.  Short.  Jacob  Fullinwider,  Philip  Gilllett.  F.  M. 
Chaffee.  C.  P.  Merriman  Jerome  R.  Gorin  and  others  equally  deserv- 
ing and  honorable. 


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SonE  Chief  Professors  and  Instructors. 


A  Qe/neral  Statement. 


No  attempt  is  made  to  analyze  the  characters  of  many  of  the  men 
who  have  been  employed  in  the  various  departments  of  the  university, 
some  of  whom  remained  with  it  but  a  very  short  time,  and  others  are 
yet  living  and  still  making  history.  It  is  proper,  however,  to  give  a  short 
sketch  of  a  few  of  those  who  have  occupied  chief  positions  in  this  insti- 
tution or  elsewhere  and  have  contributed  largely  to  the  educational 
forces  of  their  day. 

it  would  be  a  pleasure  to  speak  of  Rev.  Reuben  Andrus,  M.  A., 
D.  D.,  who  was  a  gifted  and  eminent  minister  of  the  gospel,  whose  name 
appears  in  connection  with  the  department  of  mathematics  in  1851-2. 
and  who  was  afterwards  chosen  president  of  DePauw  University;  of 
William  D.  Godman,  M.  A.,  who  succeeded  him  as  instructor  in  mathe- 
matics and  taught  in  the  Infant  preparatory  school  until  1863;  of  Wil- 
liam Goodfellow,  M.  A.,  an  honored  alumnus  of  McKendree  College,  the 
first  instructor  in  science,  1851  to  1854,  who  also  served  as  trustee  and 
vice-president  of  the  institution,  an  able,  conscientious  and  efficient 
teacher;  of  T.  J.  Tomlin,  M.  A.,  who  succeeded  Prof.  Goodfellow  in 
the  departmient  of  science  upon  his  departure  to  Evanston  to  assist  his 
father-in-law.  Dr.  Dempster,  in  preparing  the  way  for  the  Garrett  Bibli- 
cal Institute;  of  J.  W.  Sherfey.  who  was  tutor  from  1852  to  1854;  of 
Daniel  Wilkins.  M.  A.;  of  Benjamin  F.  Snow,  M.  A.,  the  gifted  and 
keen  linguist;  all  of  whom  performed  an   honorable  part   in  laying  the 


foundation  of  this  school  of  learning,  the  memory  of  whom  will  be  cher- 
ished by  those  with  whom  they  were  associated  until  the  latest  day. 

JOHN    DEMPSTER,   FIRST    PRESIDENT. 

Rev.  John  Dempster,  D.  D.,  distinguished  as  the  father  of  the  The- 
ological School  system  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  was  born  in 
Florida,  New  York,  in  1794.  His  father,  James  Dempster,  was  a 
Scotchman  by  birth,  was  educated  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  and 
having  associated  himself  with  the  Wesleyan  movement  accepted  an 
appointment  from  Mr.  Wesley  as  missionary  to  America.  John,  while 
without  the  superior  advantages  of  collegiate  training,  was  no  mean 
scholar  in  the  Latin,  Greek,  and  Hebrew  languages,  and  was  a  man  of 
extraordinary  mental  power,  being  a  master  of  logic  and  in  metaphysical 
distinctions  and  investigations.  He  entered  the  ministry  in  1815  and 
received  an  appointment  in  the  Genesee  conference.  He  commanded 
the  respect  of  the  most  highly  cultured  and  intellectual  classes  ;  filled 
many  of  the  most  important  appointments  in  New  York  city;  discharged 
the  functions  of  a  presiding  elder;  and  labored  as  a  missionary  to  Buenos 
Ayres.  South  America,  for  six  years.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  man 
of  some  peculiarities  of  habits  and  extraordinary  power  of  will  ;  he  was 
possessed  with  a  roving  disposition  and  felt  called  of  God  to  labor 
toward  the  establishment  of  schools  of  learning  for  young  ministers.    To 


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this  work  after  1846  he  devoted  all  of  his  energies,  and  in  1847  opened 
a  biblical  institute  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  for  which  he  traveled  extensively, 
collecting  funds  to  sustain  it,  as  well  as  performing  the  function  of  chief 
instructor.  Convinced  that  the  demands  of  the  hour  called  for  the  es- 
tablishment of  other  church  schools  and  feeling  that  the  New  Hampshire 
Institute  had  gained  the  affections  of  the  ministry,  he  resigned  his  posi- 
tion and  accepted  the  Presidency  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University, 
He  came  West,  but  inasmuch  as  there  were  some  indications  of  a  de- 
sire to  establish  a  school  for  ministers  in  the  vicinity  of  Chicago,  he 
gave  his  attention  to  that  work  and  soon  opened  a  school  at  Evanston. 
cut  of  which  has  come  the  Garrett  Biblical  Institute.  The  founding  of 
that  institution  settled  the  policy  of  the  Church  concerning  the  educa- 
tion of  its  ministry ;  a  work  largely  accomplished  by  John  Dempster. 

CLINTON    WM.   SEARS.   SECOND    PRESIDENT. 

Dr.  Dempster  sustained  the  official  relation  of  president  of  the  in- 
stitution until  1854.  when,  upon  his  resignation.  Clinton  William  Sears. 
M.  A.,  who  had  taught  the  ancient  languages  in  the  university  since 
1852.  was  elected  president.  He  was  born  in  New  York  in  1820;  re- 
ceived a  classical  education  at  the  Wesleyan  University,  having  been 
graduated  in  1841.  and  afterwards  studied  in  the  Lane  Theological  Sem- 
inary. Cincinnati.  Ohio.  He  entered  upon  the  ministry  and  served  in 
the  bounds  of  the  Genesee  and  Ohio  conferences  until  his  election  to 
the  chair  of  ancient  languages  at  the  Wesleyan  in  1854  ;  he  was  also 
elected  as  professor  of  ancient  languages  in  Ohio  University,  but  re- 
mained at  Bloomington.  Upon  retiring  from  the  educational  work  he 
reentered  the  pastorate  and  filled  pulpits  at  Springfield.  Illinois,  and 
Cincinnati,  until  he  answered  the  call  to  defend  his  country,  when  in 
1861  he  became  chaplain  in  the  army.  He  is  represented  as  having 
been  a  man  of  excellent  spirit,  an  accurate  scholar,  a  winning  teacher. 


GEORGE    R.    CROW,    PROFESSOR    OF    LATIN. 

George  R.  Crow,  M.  A.,  is  a  native  of  Ohio  and  was  educated  in 
the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  having  completed  its  classical  course  in 
1861.  After  graduation  he  engaged  in  teaching  awhile  and  then  moved 
to  Illinois  and  settling  near  Elkhart,  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  at 
which  he  was  eminently  successful.  In  1870,  upon  the  recommenda- 
tion of  President  Oliver  S.  Munsell,  he  was  chosen  professor  of  Latin, 
which  chair  he  occupied  until  1879;  for  nine  years  he  labored  with  un- 
tiring zeal  and  great  energy  in  the  interests  of  the  university,  and  con- 
tributed largely  of  his  means  toward  the  erection  of  the  building  that 
was  completed  during  his  connection  with  the  institution.  As  a  teacher 
he  was  easily  approached,  truly  sympathetic  and  earnest.  Since  1883 
he  has  resided  on  the  Pacific  coast,  where  he  went  for  the  sake  of  his 
health,  and  he  has  been  felt  as  a  potent  factor  in  developing  the  resources 
of  Los  Angeles. 

CHARLES  M.   MOSS.   PROFESSOR  OF  GREEK,    1879-91. 

Charles  M.  Moss,  B.  A.,  M.  A..  Ph..  D.  Professor  of  Greek  in  the 
University  of  Illinois,  prepared  for  college  at  Cazenovia  Seminary,  1873;. 
received  the  degree  of  B.  A.,  Syracuse  University,  1877;  M.  A.,  1880; 
Ph.  D.,  1881.  In  1878-79  he  was  adjunct-professor  of  classics.  Vic- 
toria University,  Cobourg,  Ontario,  Canada.  In  the  fall  of  1879  he  was 
called  to  the  chair  of  Greek  in  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  where 
he  remained  until  1891.  It  was  through  Dr.  Moss  that  the  non-resident 
and  post-graduate  department  of  the  university  was  largely  advertised 
and  built  up  after  its  organization  by  President  Fallows.  Dr.  Moss  was 
dean  of  the  department  up  to  the  time  he  left  the  university  for  his 
present  field  of  labor.  He  was  an  enthusiastic  and  inspiring  leader  of  the 
weekly  meeting  of  the  Christian  Associations  of  the  university,  and  a 
frequent  contributor  to  the  periodical  press 


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Harvey  C.  DeMotte. 

Profossor  of  Hathematics.  isei-fiit. 

During  nearly  all  the  history  of  the  Illi- 
nois Wesleyan  University,  Harvey  C.  De- 
Motte,  M.  A..  Ph.  D.,  has  been  a  prominent 
factor  in  its  growth  and  prosperity.  He 
was  born  in  Greene  county,  Illinois,  in 
1838.  His  boyhood  being  spent  upon  the 
farm  as  a  tiller  of  the  soil,  his  early  edu- 
cational advantages  were  not  of  a  superior 
character:  but,  naturally  fond  of  books,  he 
determined  to  secure  the  best  education 
to  be  obtained  by  one  in  his  condition. 
With  a  stout  heart  and  fixed  purpose,  he 
entered  school  at  Metamora.  Illinois,  in 
1856,  and  soon  afterwards  found  his  way 
to  Bloomington.  He  was  graduated  from 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  in  1861; 
having  shown  special  aptitude  as  a  tutor 
and  remarkable  ability  as  a  student  in 
mathematics,  he  was  elected  professor  of 
mathematics  on  the  day  preceding  his 
graduation.  While  in  college  he  was 
chiefly  instrumental  in  the  organization  of 
the  Belles  Lettres  literary  society,  and 
has  always  been  its  friend  and  helper.  In 
1862  he  enlisted  in  the  army  in  the  de- 
fense of  the  Union  and  served  as  first 
lieutenant  in  the  63th  Illinois  Volunteers. 


Upon  his  return  from  the  service  he  resumed  his  duties  as  pro- 


Harvey  C.  DeMotte. 


fessor  of  mathematics  at  the  university, 
which  he  performed  so  ably  and  conscien- 
tiously, as  is  known  by  most  of  the  stu- 
dents who  have  received  instruction  In  its 
halls.  In  1884  he  resigned  the  professor- 
ship to  accept  the  presidency  of  Chaddock 
College,  Quincy,  Illinois.  This  position  he 
held  until  1887,  when  he  was  elected 
superintendent  of  the  Soldiers'  Orphans' 
Home,  Normal,  Illinois.  While  Dr.  De- 
Motte was  admirably  fitted  for  the  chair 
of  mathematics,  it  seemed  that  the  super- 
intendency  of  this  great  institution,  a  home 
for  the  Union  soldiers'  orphans,  afforded 
him.  his  natural  element.  His  superlnten- 
dency  was  most  economical,  most  wise 
and  popular.  In  the  performance  of  his 
duties  he  was  most  ably  seconded  by  Mrs. 
DeMotte.  who  was  equally  well  adapted 
to  the  position  she  occupied  as  matron  of 
the  Home.  Their  kindness  of  heart, 
suavity  of  manner  and  comprehensive 
knowledge  of  child  nature  enabled  them 
to  make  a  record  in  the  home  that  will  be 
hard  to  surpass.  Dr.  DeMotte  has  always 
b?en  a  csreful.  industrious  student.  In 
1877  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  in  absentia  was 
conferred  upon  him  on  examination  by 
Syracuse  University,  and  in  1883  Baker 
University  honored  him  with  the  degree  of 


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LL.  D.  He  was  a  member  of  the  General  Conference  of  1882  and  has 
often  represented  his  own  church  in  the  lay  electoral  conferences.  As 
a  scholar  he  was  master  in  his  own  department :  as  a  teacher  he  was 
clear,  inspiring  and  sympathetic:  as  a  man  he  was  universally  respected 
and  truly  loved  by  most  of  the  students  who  received  instruction  at  his 
hand.  Many  a  timid,  almost  discouraged  youth  has  been  made  free 
and  courageous  by  his  kindness  and  appropriate  word  of  encouragement, 
and  none  ever  appaaled  to  hi.n  for  help  and  sympathy  and  were  repulsed. 
Mrs.  DeMotte.  a  most  accomplished  woman,  served  as  principal 
of  the  model  school  from  1863  to  1867.  She  also  rendered  most  valu- 
able service  to  the  institution  as  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Educational 
Association,  and  like  her  husband,  has  ever  been  loyal  to  the  interests  of 
the  University.  Their  only  daughter  Clara  is  now  a  member  of  the 
junior  class. 

JOHN    M.    HAMILTON. 

Ex-Governor  John  M.  Hamilton.  B.  A..  M.  A.,  a  descendant  of 
the  old  Scotch  family  of  Hamiltons  which  settled  in  Maryland  and  Vir- 
ginia at  an  early  day,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1847.  At  the  age  of  sixtef  n 
he  enlisted  as  a  volunteer  and  served  one  year  in  the  Union  army,  when 
he  returned  horns,  prepared  for  and  entered  college.  He  completed 
the  course  at  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University  in  1868.  ranking  third  in  a 
class  of  forty-six.  He  immediately  began  the  study  of  law.  but  was  com- 
pelled to  earn  his  living  at  the  same  time.  In  1868  he  was  principal  of 
the  academy  at  Henry.  Illinois,  and  in  the  fall  of  1869  was  elected  as 
tutor  in  Latin  at  the  11  inois  Wesleyan. 

While  Mr.  Hamilton  was  a  young  man  of  scholar'y  habits  and 
tastes,  law  was  his  chosen  profession,  upon  which  he  entered  in  Bloom- 
ington.  He  served  four  years  in  the  State  Senate  ;  he  w.-i.<;  .-also  elected 
lieutenant-governor,  and  succeeded  to  the  highest  office  of  the  State. 


John   Veslet   Powell. 

Professor,  laes-es. 


Among  the  men  who  have  honored  the  university  by  their  connec- 
tion with  it,  and  whom  the  university  delights  to  honor,  is  John  Wesley 
Powell,  M.  A..  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.  He  was  born,  as  his  name  would  indi- 
cate, of  Methodist  parents,  in  Mt.  Morris,  New  York,  in  1834,  He  is 
the  son  of  a  Methodist  clergyman.  The  lot  of  his  youth  was  that  com- 
mon to  the  children  of  the  clergymen  of  that  denomination,  and  he  had 
no  abiding  place,  but  had  excellent  opportunities  for  observation  in  Ohio, 
Wisconsin  and  Illinois.  He  studied  in  Illinois,  Wheaton,  and  Oberlin 
Colleges,  but  received  his  first  degree  from  the  Illinois  Wesleyan,  and 
was  afterwards  honored  by  the  degreee  of  Ph.  D.  from  the  University  of 
Heidelberg,  and  at  the  same  time,  1886,  with  that  of  LL.  D.  from  Har- 
vard College.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  20th  Illinois  Volunteers, 
and  rose  to  the  position  of  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  2nd  Illinois  Artillery. 
He  served  from  the  beginning  to  the  close  of  the  war,  though  he  lost  his 
right  arm  in  the  bloody  battle  of  Shiloh.  At  an  early  age  he  developed 
strong  inclinations  toward  natural  science  and  became  somewhat  of  an 
enthusiast  in  geology  and  natural  history,  spending  much  time  in  making 
collections.  Several  of  the  institutions  of  Illinois  are  richer  to-day  be- 
cause of  this  inclination  and  interest  in  higher  education,  and  especially 
the  Wesleyan.  In  1865  he  was  chosen  professor  of  geology  at  the  Illi- 
nois Wesleyan  University,  where  he  devoted  all  his  energies  toward 
building  up  the  science  department  of  the  school,  and  imparted  the  true 
scientific  spirit  to  a  large  body  of  men.  He  remained  in  this  position 
until  1868,  when  he  resigned  in  order  that  he  might  continue  his  scien- 
tific studies  and  exploration  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  region.  During 
the  summer  of  1867  he  organized  a  body  consisting  largely  of  his  own 
students,  among  whom  were  the   Hon.  L.  H.  Kerrick,  president  of  the 


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executive  committee  of  the  board  of  trustees,  Rev.  H.  C.  Ha'-tzell  and 
Dr.  J.  B.  Taylor,  for  the  purpose  of  rraking  a  geographical  s^udy  of 
Colorado.  While  on  this  expedition  he  formed  the  idea  of  exploring  the 
Canon  of  the  ColoradD.  and  was  the  first  white  man  to  behold  the  won- 
ders and  beauties  of  that  region.  He  was  soon  employed  by  the  Smith- 
sonian Institute,  under  whose  auspices  he  conducted  other  expeditions, 
and  still  later  under  the  government  more  directly. 

His  contributions  to  our  knowledge  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  region 
are  well  known  and  invaluable.  His  scientific  addresses,  papers  and 
publications  which  include  his  careful  reports  of  various  surveys  and 
ethnological  investigations  have  attracted  wide  attention  and  are  of  high- 
est authority.  Among  the  volumes  that  bear  his  own  name  are  "Ex- 
plorations of  the  Colorado  River  of  the  West  and  its  Tributaries  Ex- 
plored in  1872"  (Washington,  1875);  "Report  on  the  Geology  of  the 
Eastern  Portion  of  the  Uinta  Mountains,  and  a  Region  of  Country  Ad- 
jacent Thereto"  (1879):  "Introduction  to  the  Study  of  Indian 
Languages,  with  Words,  Phrases  and  Sentences  to  be  Collected" 
(1880):  and  "The  Canons  of  the  Colorado,"  1895,  beautifully  illustrated. 

In  i  880  he  was  made  member  of  the  National  Academy  of  Science : 
was  president  of  the  Anthropological  Society  of  Washington  from  1879 
to  1888:  a  fellow  of  the  American  Association  for  the  advancement  of 
science;  its  vice-president  in  1879  and  its  president  in  1887.  The 
students  who  accompanied  him  in  his  first  expedition  congratulate  them- 
selves upon  their  happy  experience  with  Major  John  W.  Powell  one  of 
the  largest  American  contributors  to  scientific  knowledge  of  our  own 
country,  and  the  university  on  the  fact  that  its  first  scientific  impulse 
was  originally  given  and  often  quickened  and  guided  by  so  distinguished 
an  explorer,  scholar,  teacher  and  gentleman,  while  his  direct  and  indi- 
rect contributions  to  the  natural  history  collections  of  the  university  will 
never  be  forgotten. 


S.   S.   HAMILL,   PROFESSOR  OF  ENGLISH  AND  ELOCUTION. 

Professor  S.  S.  Hamill,  B.  A..  M.  A.,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1835. 
He  received  his  preparatory  education  at  the  academy  in  Monroe,  Ohio, 
and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  entered  the  freshman  class  in  Miami  Uni- 
versity, Oxford  Ohio,  where  he  remained  for  one  year,  giving  special 
attention  to  the  study  of  elocution.  After  teaching  for  some  time,  he 
entered  the  sophomore  class  in  Monmouth  College,  and  taught  elocution 
and  thereby  paid  his  college  expenses  for  two  years  when  he  was 
elected  instructor  in  elocution  at  Knox  College,  Galesburg,  Illinois,  with 
the  privilege  of  completing  his  course  of  study.  There  he  took  his  de- 
gree in  1859.  For  several  years  after  graduation  he  taught  elocution 
to  voluntary  classes  in  the  principal  colleges  of  Pennsylvania,  Ohio, 
Indiana  and  Illinois.  In  1870  he  was  elected  professor  of  elocution  and 
English  in  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  where  he  remained  until 
1873,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  a  similar  position  in  the  State  Normal 
School  at  Kirkwood,  Missouri.  He  remained  at  Kirkwood  for  three 
years,  when  he  removed  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  taught  in  Hughes  and 
Woodward  High  Schools.  In  1877  he  was  called  to  the  chair  of  Eng- 
lish and  Elocution  in  the  Illinois  College,  but  at  the  close  of  the  first 
year  retired  and  removed  to  Chicago. 

Professor  Hamill's  influence  at  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University 
was  of  a  most  positive  character,  and  is  now  felt  throughout  the  entire 
country  through  students  who  received  instruction  from  him.  Professor 
Swing  uttered  the  simple  truth  when  he  said,  "  Prof.  Hamill  not  only 
knows  his  subject  through  and  through,  but  he  knows  how  to  impart  it 
0  others."  It  was  during  his  professorship  here  that  he  published  his 
"Science  of  Elocution." 

Mr.  Hamill  continues  to  teach  private  classes  at  57,  Washington 
Street,  Chicago,  where  he  practices  his  own  motto,  "  Principles,  not 
rules,  the  basis  in  theory:   Nature,  not  imitation,  the  guide  in  practice." 


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Bradford  S.  Potter. 

Professor  of  riATHEMATics. 


he  resigned  to  accept  a  pos'tion  in  the  Missouri  State  Norma! 


Bradford  S.  Potter.  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  was 
born  in  Walworth.  Wayne  county.  New 
York,  in  1836.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  Walworth  Academy  and  taught  in  the 
public  schools  during  the  years  1853  and 
1854.  In  1854  he  entered  Genesee  Wes- 
leyan,  now  Syracuse  University,  as  a 
freshman :  like  many  others  he  taught 
more  or  less  during  the  time  of  his  col- 
legiate course,  serving  as  principal  of 
Webster  Academy  from  1856  to  1858. 
Upon  reentering  college,  in  connection  with 
his  studies  he  was  employed  as  tutor  in 
Latin:  again  in  1859  he  was  compelled  to 
resort  to  teaching  in  order  to  be  able  to 
defray  his  expenses,  and  was  employed  in 
the  Normal  Department  of  Waterloo  Acad- 
emiy.  He  received  his  degree,  however, 
from  Genesee  Wesleyan  in  1860;  after- 
wards he  taught  at  New  Albany,  Indiana, 
was  principal  for  a  time  of  Mexico  Acade- 
my, New  York,  but  was  soon  called  to 
Baker  University.  Kansas,  where  he  occu- 
pied the  chair  of  mathematics  until  1867. 
when  he  was  elected  professor  of  natural 
science  at  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity.     Here  he  remained  until  1876  when 


Bradford  S.  Potter. 


at  Kirksville.  In  1879  he  was  called  to 
the  principalship  of  the  Normal  School  at 
Shippensburg.  Pa.  In  all  of  these  posi- 
tions he  was  a  successful  teacher  and  in 
the  latter  proved  to  possess  administrative 
ability  of  decided  merit.  In  1884  he  was 
recalled  to  the  university  as  professor  of 
natural  science,  and  upon  the  resignation 
of  Dr.  De  Motte.  who  had  accepted  the 
presidency  of  Chaddock  College,  he  was 
transferred  to  the  department  of  mathe- 
matics, which  position  he  held  until  his 
voluntary  resignation  in  1892.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Ph.  D.,  from  Alleghe- 
ny College.  Pa.,  on  examination.  Prof. 
Potter  is  an  accurate  scholar  and  in  math- 
ematics and  the  experimental  sciences, 
has  investigated  broadly  and  thoroughly: 
as  a  teacher  he  was  clear,  kind,  and  help- 
ful to  the  student ;  was  universally  re- 
spected for  his  purity  of  motive,  his  kind- 
ness of  heart,  and  his  discriminating 
judgment.  During  all  the  time  of  his  ser- 
vice at  the  university  he  has  been  an  active 
and  most  useful  member  of  the  University 
Charge  and  Grace  Church.  Ralph,  the 
son,  is  a  member  of  the  class  of  '91  :  the 
daughter.  Mary,  tcok  her  entire  course  in 
the  university,  except  the  winter  and  spring 
terjTis  of  her  senior  year. 


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Jabez  R.  Jaques. 

Professor.  1865-75. 


Prof.  Jabez  R.  Jaques.  B.  A..  M.  A.,  Ph.  D..  D.  D.,  was  born  in 
England  in  1828,  and  died  in  Abingdon.  Illinois,  in  1892.  He  entered 
Genesee  (now  Syracuse)  University  in  1850.  and  was  graduated  vale- 
dictorian of  his  class  in  1854.  He  was  principal  of  Conference  Semi- 
nary from  1854  to  1857:  pastor  of  First  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
Rochester.  New  York;  Professor  of  Ancient  Languages  in  Collegiate 
Institute,  Rochester,  New  York,  from  1863  to  1865,  when  he  was  called 
to  the  professorship  of  Ancient  Languages  and  German  in  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University,  where  he  remained  until  1875,  when  he  was 
elected  president  of  Albert  College,  Belleville,  Canada.  He  served  as 
president  of  that  institution  until  1885.  when,  for  a  short  time,  he  re- 
turned to  the  pastorate  in  New  York  City,  but  accepted  the  presidency 
of  Hedding  College,  Abingdon,  Illinois,  in  1886. 

In  1869  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  American  Philological 
Association,  and  in  1875  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  from  Syra- 
cuse University,  New  York. 

As  a  student  of  Dr.  Jaques.  I  can  say,  he  was  not  without  honors, 
but  his  honors  meant  merit,  and  his  merit  seemingly  far  transcended  his 
reward. 

SUSANNAH  M.  D.  FRY,  PROFESSOR  OF  BELLES  LETTRES. 

Among  women,  one  of  the  .most  distinguished  sducat-rs  is  Mrs. 
Sue  M.  D.  Fry.  M.  A.,  Ph.  D  .who  from  1876  to  June,  I89J.  occuoied 
the  chair  of  Belles  Lettres  at  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  She 
was  born  at  Burlington,  Ohio.  1841 .  and  was  graduated  from  the  Female 
Seminary  at  Oxford,  Ohio,  in  1859.  She  imimediately  began  to  teach, 
being   especially   proficient  in  drawing,  painting,  music  and   literature. 


For  several  years  she  taught  in  graded  high  schools.  In  1868  she  was 
married  to  Rev.  James  D.  Fry,  who  was  a  n. ember  of  the  Ohio  Con- 
ference. She  interested  herself  in  the  Ladies*  and  Pastors'  Christian 
Union,  the  Woman's  For;ign  Missionary  Society  and  other  philanthropic 
movements  in  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,  and  in  them  all  dis 
played  fine  perception,  facility, 
clearness  and  accuracy  of  expres- 
sion. In  1873  with  her  husband, 
she  traveled  and  studied  for  one 
year  in  Europe,  during  which  time 
she  contributed  articles  to  the  re- 
ligious press  which  indicated  de- 
cisive talent.  Upon  her  return  to 
America  she  devoted  her  time  ard 
talents  very  largely  to  representirg 
the  interests  of  the  Woman's  For- 
eign Missionary  Society  before  the 
conferences.  In  1876  she  wjs 
elected  Professor  of  Belles  Lettres 
at  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University, 
and  in  this  position  during  her  four- 
teenyears  of  teaching. distinguished 
herself    as    a   scholar    and    public 

speaker  of  great  ability,  beirg  especially  strong  in  literature,  histcry. 
history  of  art  and  assthetics,  and.  as  preceptress  of  the  ladies'  hall  during 
the  first  years  of  her  connecMon  with  the  university,  she  exercised  an 
influence  second  to  but  few  who  have  been  connected  with  the  university 
at  any  time:  and  to  her  more  than  anyone  else  is  due  'he  successes  of 
the   Women's   Educational   Associations      In  1878  her  scholarship  was 


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recognized  by  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  which  conferred  upon  her  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts.  In  1881  she  took  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  from 
Syracuse  University.  In  addition  to  her  duties  as  professor,  she  con- 
tributed articles  to  various  periodicals,  addressed  conventions  and  con- 
ferences on  educational  and  religious  topics,  and  occupied  a  prominent 
position  in  many  organizations  local  and  general.  She  read  a  paper  of 
decided  merit  before  the  Parliament  of  Religions  in  connection  with 
the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago ;  was  also  a  judge  in  the  Liberal  Art  dfe- 
partment  of  the  Columbian  Exposition  and  received  the  highest  testimo- 
nials from  the  commissioner  of  the  department  for  efficiency  of  service. 
Since  severing  her  connection  with  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  she 
has  taught  in  the  English  department  of  the  University  of  Minnesota 
during  the  absence  of  the  professor  in  charge,  also  in  the  department  of 
history  in  the  St.  Paul  high  school  as  a  substitute,  and  is  at  the  pres- 
ent time  editor-in-chief  of  the  Union  Signal  in  place  of  Miss  Sudduth, 
one  of  her  former  pupils,  and  of  the  class  of  1880,  who  is  now  traveling 
abroad. 

JENNIE  FOWLER  WILLING,  PROFESSOR  OF  ENGLISH  LITERATURE. 

Another  distinguished  woman.  Mrs.  Willing,  occupied  the  chair  of 
English  literature  in  the  university  during  the  years  of  1873  and  1876. 
She  is  a  sister  of  Bishop  Charles  H.  Fowler,  and  was  born  in  Canada 
West  in  1834.  At  the  early  age  of  sixteen  she  began  contributing 
articles  to  the  press,  and  assumed  the  duties  of  teacher,  displaying 
marked  abilities  and  strong  character.  Al  nineteen  she  was  married  to 
Rev.  W.  C.  Willing,  and  in  addition  to  her  duties  as  the  wife  of  an  itin- 
erant preacher,  gave  diligent  attention  to  literature,  writing  more  or  less 
constantly  for  the  religious  press,  and  discharging  the  functions  of  the 
secretary  of  the  Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  public  speaker, 
organizer,  editor  of  the  Heathen  Woman's  Friend;  in  fact,  she  has  been 


more  or  less  identified  with  the  great  movements  of  Methodism  which 
in  her  day  have  calisd  forth  the  peculiar  abilities  of  women.  She  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  M.  E.  L.  from  Jennings  Seminary,  and  that  of 
Master  of  Arts  from  Northwestern  University. 

LEWIS  C.   DOUGHERTY,   PRINCIPAL   PREPARATORY  SCHOOL. 

Lewis  C.  Dougherty,  who  was  principal  of  the  preparatory  school 
of  the  Illinois  V/esleyan  University  from  1886  to  1889  was  educated  at 
Monmouth  Academy  and  in  the  Illinois  State  Normal  School,  where  he 

pursued  most  of  the  studies  of  the  high 
school  in  connection  with  the  Normal 
course.  Like  most  of  the  public  school 
men  of  the  day,  he  taught  more  or  less 
before  he  entered  upon  his  professional 
oourse  of  study,  and  during  the  time  he 
vas  pursuing  it.  He  served  as  principal 
of  the  Lacon  schools  two  years,  and  of 
the  Minonk  schools  seven  years,  when  he 
was  invited  by  President  Adams  to  the 
position  of  principal  of  the  preparatory 
school,  which  he  accepted.  Here  he 
proved  to  be  a  first-class  instructor  and 
wise  administrator,  and  a  geiial  Christian 
gentleman.  In  the  spring  of  1889  he  resigned  to  accept  a  position  in 
the  schools  of  Rock  Island,  where  he  still  teaches. 

WILLLIAM    H.   WAITE,   PROFESSOR    OF    LATIN. 

William  Henry  Waite,  M.  A..  Ph.  D.,  was  elected  professor  of 
Latin  in  1883  and  voluntarily  resigned  in  June,  1890.  He  was  a  native 
of  Illinois  and  was  born  well,  having  had  the  best  advantages  for  an  early 


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education.  He  prepared  for  college  in  the  academy  of  the  Northwest- 
ern University,  from  which  institution  he  received  the  degree  of  B.  A. 
As  a  student  he  was  espscially  strong  in  the  ancient  languages  and 
mathematics.  He  was  soon  called  to  a  position  in  the  high  school  of 
Peoria.  Illinois,  and  taught  Latin  and  Greek  until  called  to  the  university 
in  1833.  In  1893  he  returned  to  Peoria  to  the  position  he  formerly 
occupied.  He  received  from  Allegheny  College  the  degree  of  Ph.  D., 
and  during  the  years  1893  and  1894  he  traveled  and  studied  in  Europe. 
Upon  his  return  he  was  called  to  Michigan  University  as  instructor  in 
Greek.  As  a  scholar  he  is  accurste  and  thorough:  as  a  teacher  he  is 
rigid  and  efficient,  being  a  perfect 
master  in  the  class-room. 

REUBEN    M.   BENJAMIN,   PROFESSOR 
SINCE    1874. 

Judge  Reuben  M.  Benjamin 
B.  A.,  M,  A.,  LL.  D.,  was  born  al 
Chatham  Center,  New  York.  He 
prepared  for  college  in  the  academy 
at  Kinderhook,  New  York,  and  en- 
tered Amherst,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1853.  In  1853-4  he 
was  principal  of  Hopkins  Academy. 
Massachusetts.  In  185  4-5  he 
studied  law  at  the  Harvard  law 
school;  in  1855-56  he  was  tutor  in 
Amherst  College  ;  in  1856  he  came 
to  Bloomington,  Illinois,  where  he 
has  since  resided.   He  entered  im-  reuben  m.  benjamin. 

mediately  upon  the  practiC3  of  his  profession,  first  with  Gridley,  Wickizer 


and  Benjamin,  later  with  Tipton  and  Benjamin, and  later  still  with  Weldon 
and  Benjamin. 

In  1869,  Mr.  Benjamin  was  elected  as  a  member  of  the  convention 
that  formed  the  present  constitution  of  the  State,  and  rendered  most 
valuable  service,  serving  on  the  com.mittees:  Bill  of  Rights,  Municipal 
Corporations,  and  State  Institutions.  He  was  counsel  also  for  the  Peo- 
ple in  the  celebrated  Lexington  case  (C.  &.  A.  R.  R.  Co.  vs.  the  People, 
67  111.  Rep.),  a  case  involving  the  question  as  to  the  right  of  railroad 
corporations  to  charge  more  for  a  less  than  for  a  greater  distance.  He 
was  later  employed  as  special  counselor  for  the  Railroad  and  Warehouse 
Commissioners,  and  in  this  case  helped  to  establish  the  constitutional 
power  of  the  legislature  to  regulate  railroad  and  warehouse  charges  to 
thus  protect  the  public. 

"  It  is  probable  that  the  people  of  the  State  are  indebted  for  the 
results  of  this  agitation  as  given  in  the  above  decision  to  Hon.  R.  M. 
Benjamin,  of  Bloomington,  in  a  greater  degree  than  to  any  other  single 
individual.  As  a  member  of  the  constitutional  convention  he  made  the 
clearest  and  most  convincing  arguments  in  favor  of  the  rights  of  the 
people  which  were  delivered  in  that  body,  and  as  special  counsel  for  the 
People  in  the  cases  of  the  C.  &  A.  R.  R.  us.  The  People,  and  Munn  us. 
The  People,  has  very  materially  contributed  in  establishing  the  princi- 
ple contended  for  by  him  before  the  convention  and  established  in  above 
cases." 

In  1873  Mr.  Benjamin  was  elected  county  judge  of  McLean  county, 
and  continuously  held  the  office  until  1882.  Upon  the  organization  of 
the  law  school  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  in  1874,  Judge  Ben- 
jamin was  elected  dean,  and  held  the  office  until  1892,  when  he  volun- 
tarily resigned  the  deanship  that  he  might  give  greater  attention  to  the 
professorship,  and  study.  In  1879  he  published  "The  Student's  Guide 
to  Elementary  Law,"  which  has  proved  to  be  a  most  valuable  text-book. 


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His   department    is  that  of    Elementary  ar.d   Criminal    Law  and    Real 
Property. 

Mr.  Benjamin  is  a  courteous,  cultured  C  "ristian  gentleman,  of  ex- 
act and  accurate  scholarship.  As  a  teacher  he  is  clear,  kind,  instructive 
and  stimulating. 

JACOB  P.   LINDLEY.   PROFESSOR   SINCE    1883. 

Jacob  p.  Lindley.  A.  B.,  LL.  B.,  was  born  in  Morgan  county,  Indi- 
ana, in  1850.  He  received  his  early  education  in  New  Providence 
Seminary.  Hardin  county. 
Iowa,  and  Poplar  Ridge  Semi- 
nary. Indiana.  He  entered  the 
State  University  and  gradu- 
ated with  a  degree  of  A.  B.  in 
1881.  having  taught  for  some 
years  in  the  public  schools  of 
Iowa  bifore  entering  upon  his 
college  course.  He  entered 
the  law  school  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University  in  1881 
and  graduated  in  1833.  Soon 
after  his  graduation  he  was 
employed  as  teacher  in  the 
law  school  and  taught  Con- 
tracts in  the  spring  term  of 
1884.  at  which  time  he  be- 
came secretary  and  treasurer 

.      ^        ,  I         I  i_i^     ,.,oe  JACOB  P.    LINDLEY. 

of   the  law  school.      He   was 

elected  aitorney  for  the  city  of  Bloomington  in  1892,  which  office  he 

still  holds.     He  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 


John  M.  Scott. 

Lecturer  in  Law  School  Since  i889. 


Birth. — Was  born  in  St.  Clair  county,  Illinois,  August  1,  1824. 

Parents. — Samuel  and  Nancy  Biggs  Scott. 

Race. — On  father's  side  his  people  were  of  Irish  extraction. 

Education. — Common  school,  supplemented  by  private  instruction. 

Law. — Studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  William  C  Kinney, 
Belleville,  Illinois;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1847,  and  came  to 
Bloomington,  Illinois,  in  1848,  to  commence  the  practice  of  law. 

Offices. — In  1852  was  elected  Judge  of  the  County  Court  of 
McLean  county,  Illinois.  In  1862  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Circuit 
Court  of  the  circuit  in  which  McLean  county  was  situated;  was  re- 
elected Circuit  Judge  in  1867  and  held  that  office  until  elected  Judge 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  in  1870  ;  was  re-elected  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  in  1879.  During  the  eighteen  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Supreme  Court  by  allotment  he  became  three  times  Chief 
Justice,  viz.:  in  1875,  1882,  and  1886  ;  was  the  first  native  citizen  of 
Illinois  to  become  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  the  first  to  be- 
come its  Chief  Justice.  At  the  end  of  his  second  term  as  Judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  viz.:  in  June,  1838,  he  declined  to  be  a  candida^^  for 
re-election.  His  name  first  appears  in  the  third  volume  of  Oilman  Re- 
ports and  from  a  short  time  thereafter  his  name  appears  in  the  Illinois 
Reports  as  Attorney,  Judge  of  the  Trial  Court,  or  as  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court  writing  theopinions,  up  intoand  including  Vol.  126,  Illinois  Reports. 

Personal. — In  size  medium — being  five  feet,  eight  and  one-half 
inches  in  height  and  neither  stout  nor  very  spare.  When  young,  hair 
was  as  black  as  it  well  could  be  and  now  it  is  yet  full  and  white  as  it 
can  well  be. 

Temperament. — Neither  very  cheerful  nor  very  melancholy. 


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Complexion.—  Dark  and  inclined  to  be  swarthy.  Eyes  hazel  in 
color  and  perhaps  a  little  larger  than  in  most  persons. 

Peculiar  Characteristics.— Writes  always  with  a  quill  pen;  in  all 
later  compositions  the  word  ••that"  is  seldom  used.  Appreciates  a 
good  story  if  it  is  clean  ;  detests  a  dirty  story  or  a  practical  joke.  Has 
no  taste  for  political  life.  Bearing  in  life  quiet  and  friendly  with  all 
whom  he  may  chance  to  meet. 

Opinions. — His  judicial  opinions  speak  for  themselves.  No  one  is 
more  sensible  of  the  defects  they  contain  than  he  is.     Two  cases  may 

be  regarded  as  a  fair  average : 
one  is  Dunne  us.  People,  1  17 
111.  120.  and  the  other  is  Field 
us.  Leiter,  1  18  111.  17.  Others 
are  perhaps  better  and  others 
not  so  well  written. 

Professional  Labor. — It  will 
be  seen  by  what  has  gone  be- 
fore that  his  professional  work 
has  been  mostly  judicial  labor ; 
practiced  law  for  only  a  brief 
time. 

HOLLAND  A.  RUSSELL.  CLASS  OF 

'87;  PROFESSOR  SINCE  1893. 

Rolland  A.  Russell,  B.  A.. 
M.   A.,  LL.  B..  Professor  of 
the  college  of  law,  was  born  in 
ROLLAND  A.  RUSSELL.  Shelby  county.  Illinois,  where 

he  spent  his  youth  on  a  farm.      He  entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity in  the  spring  of  1880.      In  1881-82  he  taught  school:    in  1883 


returned  to  the  Wesleyan  and  was  graduated  in  1887.  From  1887  to 
1889  he  was  principal  of  the  Greenfield  high  school.  He  entered  the 
law  school  in  1889.  and  was  graduated  in  1891.  having  studied  also  in 
the  office  of  Benjamin  &  Morrissey  of  the  city.  He  at  once  began  the 
practice  of  law,  but  was  soon  invited  to  a  position  on  the  faculty,  which 
he  accepted.      He  teaches  Kent  and  Gould  on  Pleading. 

During  his  collegiate  course  Mr.  Russell  was  considered  a  leader, 

not  only  in  his  class  but  in 
college  affairs.  He  is  modest 
and  unassuming,  calm  and 
even-tempered,  and  is  most 
courteous  and  dignified  in  his 
bearing.  Had  he  been  willing 
to  have  yielded  the  profession 
of  law,  he  would  have  been  in- 
vited to  a  professorship  in  the 
college.  He  is  one  of  the 
most  worthy  sons  of  the  Wes- 
leyan, destined  to  take  a  high 
rank  in  his  profession. 

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professor    of   practice    in    the 
college  of  law,  was  birn  in  Ohio 
in  1847.  and   had  the   advan- 
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until  sixteen  years  old.  when  he 
began  clerking  in  a  dry  goods  store.     During  the  late  war  he  ccrvcd  in 


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Company  B,  32nd  Ohio  Infantry.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  attended 
the  National  Normal  School,  at  Lebanon.  Ohio,  then  taught  school  for 
two  years  in  West  Virginia.  Having  graduated  from  Lebanon,  he  en- 
tered the  law  department  of  Michigan  University  and  completed  its  two 
years' course  in  1874.  He  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Bloomington, 
Illinois,  where   his  talents  received  early  recognition.      He  was  elected 

judge  of  the  county  court,  which 
office  he  still  holds.  As  a  teacher, 
he  is  clear,  concise  and  inspiring, 
and  has  the  universal  respect  of 
students  and  of  citizens  generally. 

JOHN  J.   MORRISSEY,   PROFESSOR    OF 
LAW   SINCE    1880. 

John  J.  Morrissey,  LL.  B.,  is  a 
native  of  Ireland,  but  received  his 
education  in  the  United  States, 
having  graduated  from  the  law 
school  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University  in  1880.  His  charac- 
ter, bearing  and  natural  endow- 
ments strongly  recommended  him 
for  a  teacher  in  the  law  school, 
and  at  the  meeting  of  the  trustees 
in  June  of  the  year  of  his  gradua- 
tion he  was  elected  professor  of 
common  law  and  equity  pleading.  He  also  entered  into  partnership 
with  Judge  Reuben  M.  Benjamin,  with  whom  he  is  still  associated  in 
teaching  and  practice.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  pleasing  and  unassuming 
manners,  of  elevated  sentiment,  of  refined  taste  and  of  strict  integrity. 


JOHN  J.   MORRiSSEY. 


JAMES  B.  TAYLOR,  CLASS  OF    1869. 

James  B.  Taylor,  M.  A..  M.  D.,  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1850. 
His  youth  was  spent  in  Missouri,  Kentucky  and  Illinois.  He  prepared 
for  college  in  the  State  Normal  University  and  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
preparatory  school,  and  graduated  from  the  college  in  June,  1869.  He 
was  one  of  the  company  of  students  who  accompanied  Major  Powell  in 
his  early  exploring  expedition  to  the  Rocky  Mountains.  During  his 
college  course  he  did  some  tutoring  in  Latin,  and  immediately  upon 
graduation  began  teaching  in  Kentucky  and  met  with  eminent  success. 
In  1875  he  was  called  to  his  alma  mater  as  professor  of  natural  science. 
Here  he  remained  for  two  years,  then  on  a  leave  of  absence  visited 
Germany  for  special  study,  resuming  his  work  at  the  university  upon  his 
return.  In  1879,  having  yielded  to  the  conviction  that  he  should  follow 
professionally  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father,  he  went  to  New  York  and 
entered  the  medical  college  where  he  took  the  complete  course  and  had 
extended  practice  in  the  hospital.  After  graduating  from  the  medical 
college  he  returned  to  the  city  of  Bloomington  and  began  the  practice  of 
medicine,  his  specialties  being  the  eye,  ear  and  throat.  At  the  same 
time  he  was  retained  by  the  university  as  professor  and  lecturer  on 
physiology  and  hygiene,  giving  one  full  year's  course  of  five  hours  a 
week  to  the  subjects.  This  position  he  retained  until  1892,  when  his 
increasing  practice  rendered  it  no  longer  possible  for  him  to  direct  the 
course.  Dr.  Taylor  will  be  remembered  as  a  student  of  the  highest 
rank,  accurate  and  thorough  in  all  his  investigations.  He  has  given 
special  attention  to  biological  studies  and  is  considered  an  authority  in 
all  matters  pertaining  to  his  specialties.  He  has  contributed  frequently  to 
medical  and  educational  reviews,  and  has  published  a  most  admirable 
pamphlet  on  Christian  Science.  While  he  stands  high  in  his  profession, 
he  was  pre-eminently  a  teacher,  rarely  excelled  either  in  matter  or 
manner,  and  his  retirement  from  the  faculty  was  the  university's  loss. 


Lawrence  Weldon. 


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Lawrence  Veldo/m. 

PROFfiSSOR.  1876-83. 


Judge  Lawrence  Weldon,  LL.  D.,was  born  in  Muskingum  county, 
Ohio,  in  1829:  removed,  with  his  parents,  to  Madison  county,  Ohio, 
when  a  child;  was  educated  at  the  common  schools,  at  the  local  acad- 
emy, and  at  Wittenberg  College,  Springfield,  Ohio  :  read  law,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1853:  was  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  secretary 
of  state  of  Ohio  in  1853  and  1854;  in  that  year  removed  to  Clinton,  De 
Witt  county,  Illinois,  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law;  in  1860  was 
elected  a  representative  in  the  State  legislature,  and  was  also  a  presi- 
dential elector  on  the  republican  ticket:  in  1861  resigned  his  seat  in 
the  legislature  to  accept  the  appointment  of  United  States  Attorney  for 
the  southern  district  of  Illinois,  tendered  him  by  President  Lincoln;  re- 
signed in  1866,  and,  in  1867,  removed  to  Bloomington,  Illinois,  where 
he  continued  the  practice  of  his  profession:  in  November,  1883,  was 
appointed,  by  President  Arthur,  an  associate  justice  of  the  United  States 
court  of  claims.     This  position  he  fills  with  distinguished  ability. 

Though  the  university  congratulated  itself  on  having  one  cf  its  fac- 
ulty chosen  to  this  eminent  position,  his  services  in  the  law  school  were 
so  valuable  that  it  was  unwilling  for  him  to  sever  entirely  his  connection 
with  its  faculty;  consequently  he  was  prevailed  upon  to  remain  as  lec- 
turer. Residing  in  Bloom.ington  for  a  few  months  annually,  he  is  able 
to  perform  the  functions  of  the  office.  It  will  be  seen  that  Judge  Wel- 
don has  been  associated  with  the  faculty  of  the  law  school  since  1876, 
as  professor  or  lecturer.  As  a  lecturer  he  excels  in  clearness  and  befuty 
of  expression,  having  great  wealth  of  illustration  from  history  and  litera- 
ture;  as  a  teacher  he  begets  an  interest  in  his  subject,  and  is  patient, 
luminous  and  thorough,  is  dignified  and  courteous,  affable  and  aprroach- 
able ;  in  character,  irreproachable  as  to  private  as  well  as  to  his  public  life. 


LYDE   R.    PORTER.  ASSISTANT  IN   PREPARATORY  SCHOOL. 

Miss  Lyde  R.  Porter,  instructor  in  English  in  the  preparatory 
school,  is  a  native  of  Bloomington.  where  she  has  spent  her  entire  life. 
She  completed  the  courses  of  study  in  the  public  schools,  including  the 
high  school,  attended  the  State  Normal  University  for  a  short  time,  and 
spent  two  years  of  study  in  the  Wesleyan.  The  remainder  of  her  life 
has  been  given  to  teaching,  mainly  in  the  public  schools  of  the  city,  until 

in  1891  she  was  elected  to  the 
position  she  now  holds.  She  is  a 
most  enthusiastic  teacher,  and  in- 
variably awakens  the  pupil  and 
begets  an  interest  in  the  subject 
taught.  The  student  who  will 
not  learn  may  fail  to  be  quick- 
ened in  intellect  and  spurred  to 
intellectual  energy  under  her  tui- 
tion, but  if  he  gives  any  attention 
to  his  studies  he  must  advance. 
Miss  Porter  belongs  to  a  family 
of  teachers.  Three  of  her  sisters 
have  for  several  years  maintained 
positions  in  the  city  schools,  and 
whether  as  teachers  or  principals 
LYDE  R    PORTER  ^""^  recognlzed  as  most  efficient, 

Robert  B..  of  the  class  of  1871, 
was  her  brother,  and  Miss  Rachel  Bauman,  of  the  class  of  1889,  is  her 
niece  and  a  daujhtsr  of  Rev.  James  V.  W.  Bauman.  of  the  class  of 
1863.  Miss  Porter  is  patient  and  careful,  and  is  especially  strong  in 
English  and  history,  bringing  to  the  class-room  a  wealth  of  information 
and  illustration.     She  is  a  devout  member  of  the  Methodist  church. 


Robert  O.  Graham. 


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Robert  0.  Graham.  M.  A..  Ph.  D..  professor  of  chemistry  and 
geology,  dean  of  the  post-graduate  college,  was  born  in  Western  Penn- 
sylvania, and  prepared  for  college  in  the  New  Brighton  high  school  and 
Witherspoon  Academy  of  his  native  State.  He  entered  Amherst  Col- 
lege in  1873  and  was  graduated  in  1877.  During  his  collegiate  course 
he  made  a  specialty  of  mathematics  and  chemistry.  Before  completing 
his  course  he  was  elected  professor  of  science  in  Monson  Academy,  a 
preparatory  school  in  New  England,  where  he  spent  one  year,  but  in  the 
meantime  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  a  view  to  its  practice  as  his 
life  work.  He  soon,  however,  received  a  call  to  the  professorship  of 
chemistry  in  the  Westminster  College.  Pa.,  the  chief  institution  of  the 
United  Presbyterian  Church  in  which  comm.union  he  was  reared.  He 
occupied  the  chair  in  Westminster  College  for  eight  years  and  through 
his  ingenuity,  skill,  and  industry,  built  good  working  laboratories. 
His  eight  years'  experience  in  this  professorship  revealed  to  him  not 
only  the  needs  of  post-graduate  study,  but  the  special  fields  of  investiga- 
tion which  would  best  prepare  him  for  his  professorship,  hence  he  was 
granted  a  year's  leave  of  absence  and  entered  upon  graduate  study  at 
Johns  Hopkins  University,  where  at  the  close  of  the  year's  study  he 
was  encouraged  by  Professor  Remsen  to  think  he  could  complete  the 
course  of  study  and  receive  the  degree  of  Ph.  D..  by  remaining  another 
year.  He  then  resigned  his  position  at  Westminster  and  took  the  de- 
gree of  Ph.  D..  in  1888.  His  summers  were  spent  in  the  natural  gas 
com.panies  of  the  Pittsburg  Testing  Com.pany's  laboratory.  In  the 
summer  of  1888,  upon  the  invitation  of  President  Wilder,  he  accepted 
the  professorship  of  chemistry  and  geology  in  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, where  he  has  made  for  himself  a  reputation  as  a  most  success- 


ful teacher,  enterprising  citizen,  and  a 

social  qualities.  During  the  first  year  attempts  were  n7clVfA»fpr 
tional  facilities  in  his  department  and  the  Shellabarger  laboratory  was 
placed  at  his  service,  the  old  laboratory  having  been  enlarged  and  thor- 
oughly equipped  as  well.  Since  then,  upon  the  death  of  Henry  Swayne, 
the  Swayne  private  laboratory  has  been  placed  in  the  university,  afford- 
ing the  Professor  the  best  advantages  for  original  research,  and  the  ad- 
vanced student  in  chemistry  rare  opportunities  for  instruction. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Chemical  Society,  and  Director 
of  the  city  library.  It  was  under  Dr.  Graham's  influence  that  the  Wil- 
der Reading  Room  was  organized  and  established,  and  that  the  Wes- 
leyan Lecture  Course,  so  successfully  managed  for  six  years,  was  under- 
taken. His  services  as  expert  chemist  are  in  great  demand  in  central 
Illinois.  As  Dean  of  the  Non-resident  and  Post-graduate  department, 
he  shows  rare  skill  and  ability. 

B.   p.   MARSH.   PROFESSOR  OF   PHYSIOLOGY  AND  HYGIENE. 

B.  P.  Marsh.  M.  A,.  M.  D..  who  ably  taught  physiology  and  hygi- 
ene in  the  university  from  1876  to  1880,  is  a  native  of  New  York  State 
and  was  born  in  1841.  He  was  graduated  from  Knox  College  in  1864 
and  afterwards  completed  a  medical  course  of  study  at  Chicago,  having 
studied  at  Hahnemann  and  Rush  colleges.  From  1868  to  1873  he  was 
principal  of  Bloomington  high  school.  This  position  he  resigned  to 
enter  upon  the  practice  of  medicine,  for  which  he  had  thoroughly  pre- 
pared.     An  only  son.  Walworth,  graduated  with  the  class  of  1895. 

Lecures  also  were  delivered  by  John  L.  White,  M.  D..  from.  1872 
to  1876.  The  lectureship  was  instituted  by  President  Munsell  with  a 
view  to  the  organization  of  a  medical  department,  but  the  conditions 
have  never  warranted  the  organization  of  a  distinct  professional  school, 
though  courses  are  now  arranged  in  view  of  the  medical  profession. 


Morton  J.   Elrod. 


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Norton   J.   fiROo. 

Trofessor  Since  isaa 


Morton  J  Elrod.  B.  A.,  M.  A.,  Professor  of  biolcgy  and  physics. 
was  born  in  1863  in  Western  Pennsylvania  and  removed  with  his 
parents  to  Iowa  in  e.irly  childhood.  He  was  prepared  for  college  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  State,  and  the  Monroe  high  school,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1882.  whereupon  he  entered  Simpson  College.  Iowa, 
and  was  graduated  in  1887.  He  was  fortunate  in  having  good  health  and 
being  compelled  to  rely  upon  his  own  resources  to  secure  the  money  to 
defray  his  expenses  while  in  college.  This  necessity  gave  him  three 
years'  experience  in  teaching,  all  in  cne  schcol,  before  his  graduation. 
His  specialty  in  college  was  biology,  and  when  required  to  bring  fifty 
specimens  of  flov  ers  properly  analyzed,  he  presented  a  herbarium  of 
two  thousand  specimens.  He  served  as  assistan.  in  the  science  depart- 
ment and  did  efficient  w:rk  in  his  college  before  his  graduation.  In 
1887.  the  year  after  graduation,  he  was  principal  of  the  high  school  of 
Corydon.  Iowa.  In  the  summer  of  1888  he  was  invited  by  President 
Wilder  to  the  position  of  assistant  teacher  in  the  science  departments  in 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  where  his  ability  as  a  teacher  vts 
soon  recognized,  and  in  1839  he  was  made  adjunct-professor  of  nat..  al 
science,  and  in  1891  was  elected  professor  of  biology  and  physics,  i  ;e 
has  developed  fine  skill  as  a  taxidermist,  and  has  used  that  ability  rs 
curator  of  the  museum  to  great  advantage  to  the  university.  For  a 
number  of   years  he   has  been  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Iowa  School 

Journal. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Ornithologist  Union,  the  Biological 
Society  of  Washington,  D.  C:  the  American  Association  of  Concholo- 
gists,  and  the  Wilson  chapter  of  the  Agassiz  Association.  He  is  also  a 
contributor  to  many  of  the  leading  papers  and   magazines  of  the  day. 


During  the  summers  of  1894  and  1895  he  organized  exploring  compa- 
nies composed  largely  of  students,  and,  spending  sc  me  time  in  the  Reeky 
Mountains  and  the  Yellowstone  Park,  he  secured  the  recognition  of  the 
new  species  andrya  americara  (Stiles)  and  enallagma  carunculatum. 

Those  who  know  Professor  Elrod  need  not  be  told  that  he  is  a  gen- 
eral favorite  with  the  students,  and  that  his  popularity  and  fame  at  hom.e 

and  abroad  are  increasing. 

MRS.   MARGARET  VAN  LEER. 

Miss  Martha  Langstaff.  now  Mrs. 
Bert  Van  Leer,  of  this  city,  was 
elected  instructor  in  English  and  elo- 
cution in  1890,  and  served  two  years. 
She  was  a  graduate  of  the  Lexing- 
ton high  school,  and  a  student  in  the 
Northwestern  School  of  Oratory 
under  Professor  Cumnock,  having 
completed  the  required  course  of 
study.  She  showed  marked  ability 
as  a  reader  and  teacher  of  voice 
culture  and  elocution.  She  was  a 
great  favorite  among  students  and 
in  Bloomington  society.  She  was 
married  to  Bert  Van  Leer  in  1894, 
and  resides  in  this  city. 

She  was  preceded  in  her  work  of 
instruction  by  some  of  the  university's  sens  who  have  achieved  distinc- 
tion, among  whom  are  James  Oliver  Wilson,  who  also  was  instructor 
in  this  department  at  Drew  Seminary:  Samuel  Van  Pelt,  the  successful 
president  of  Grand  Prairie  Seminary;  J.  h.  Ci.lan  and  Robert  McKay, 


MARGARET   VAN  LEER. 


Melvin  p.    Lackland. 


ILLINOIS    WhSLBYAN    UNIVBHSITY. 


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MELVir^     F.    LACl^LAhD, 

F^?OFESSOR   OF  HATHEnATICS- 


Protessor  Melvin  P.  Lackland.  B.  A..  M.  A..  B.  D..  was  born  in 
1851  in  Tremont,  Illinois,  where  his  childhood  and  youth  were  spent 
upon  the  farm  and  in  the  country  schools.  He  entered  the  preparatory 
school  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  in  1872,  and  was  graduated 
from  the  college  of  letters  in  1878.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Belles  Lettres  literary  society,  and  was  president  of  his  class.  He 
studied  one  year  a'  Drew  Theological  Seminary,  and  completed  his 
theological  course  at  Garrett  Biblical  Institute  in  1681.  He  united  with 
the  Centra!  Illinois  Conference  of  the  same  year  and  served  ?s  paster  at 
Sibley,  Selm.a.  Rcaonke  until  1888.  At  the  latter  place  he  was  also 
principal  of  the  public  schools,  having  taught  his  first  school  before 
entering  the  preparatory  departm.ent  of  the  university.  Feeling  drawn 
to  the  wqrk  of  education,  he  entered  Johns  Hcpkins  University  in  the 
fall  of  1883.  and  did  special  work  in  mathematics.  He  v/as  afterwards 
chosen  professor  of  mathemaiics  in  Chaddock  College  and  succeeded 
President  Hornbeck  of  that  institution,  where  he  remain=}d  doing  valiant 
service  until  1892,  when  called  to  the  chair  of  mathemaiics  in  the  Illi- 
nois Wesleyan  University. 

ROBERT    EBENEZER    WILLIAMS. 

Hon.  Robert  E.  Williams  was  the  firs^  University  Lecturer  on  legal 
subjects,  and  at  the  organization  of  the  Law  School  became  Professor 
of  Consti.utional,  Internaticnal,  ? nd  Crim.inal  Law.  which  position  he 
occupied  with  great  acceptability  until  1877.  He  was  born  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1825,  educated  at  Washington  and  Bethany  Colleges,  and  be- 
gan his  legal  practice  in  Bloomington,  in  1850.  In  legal  lore  he  is  not 
only  one  of  the  most  eminent  but  also  one  of  the  m.ost  profound  lawyers 
in  Illinois,  having  practiced  extensively  in  the  Suprem.e  Court  of  the  State. 


WILLIAM    ARTHUR    HEIDEL.   PROFESSOR    OF    CREEK. 

William  Arthur  Heidel.  B.  A..  M.  A..  Ph.  D.,  late  professor  of 
Greek  in  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  was  born  in  1868  at  Burling- 
ton,   Iowa,   of  German-American    parents.      He    attended    the    public 

schools,  and  in  1884-5,  his  father 
being  pastor  of  the  German  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  church  at  Quincy, 
Illinois,  he  attended  Chaddock 
College.  In  1888  he  was  gradu- 
ated from  Central  Wesleyan  Col- 
lege, Warrenton.  iVIissouri.  From 
1888  to  1890  he  was  a  graduate 
student  in  the  University  of  Ber- 
lin, Germany.  Upon  his  return 
to  the  United  States,  in  the  fall 
of  1890,  he  was  was  elected  in- 
structor in  Greek  in  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University,  and  profes- 
sor of  Greek  in  1 89 1 .  which  place 
he  held  until  1894,  when  he  was 
granted  a  leave  of  absence  for 
continued  study  in  the  University 
of  Chicago,  having  received  an 
appointment  as  Fellow  in  Greek. 
He  received  the  degree  of  Ph.  D. 
in  June,  1895.  He  was  offered  the  chair  of  m.odern  languages  in  the 
university,  but  declined,  not  caring  to  devote  his  attention  to  these  sub- 
jects, much  to  to  the  regret  of  the  university.  His  gentlemanly  bearing, 
his  Christian  spirit,  and  accurate  and  broad  learning,  made  him  a  favorite 
among  Bloomington  people,  who  deeply  regret  losing  him. 


WILLIAIVl    ARTHUR    HEIDEL. 


1 


Wii.BhRT  Ferguson. 


ILLINOIS    WES  LEY  AN    UNIVERSITY. 


10? 


ViLBERT  Ferguson, 

fROFESSOR  OF  QREEK. 


Wilbert  Ferguson,  B.  A..  M.  A.,  professor  of  Greek  in  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University,  was  born  in  1857  at  Richwood,  Ohio,  where  he 
prepared  for  college  in  the  public  schools,  having  served  an  apprentice- 
ship in  the  office  of  the  local  Gazette.  In  1874  he  entered  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University  and  was  graduated  in  1879,  having  taught  for  two 
years  in  the  meantime;  one  year  in  the  grammar  grade  at  Richwood, 
and  one  year  as  superintendent  of  village  schools  at  La  Rue,  Ohio. 

The  years  following  graduation  were  spent  as  one  of  the  editors 
and  publishers  of  the  Richwood  Gazette.  In  the  fall  of  1882  he  was 
elected  assistant  professor  of  ancient  languages  in  Adrian  College, 
Adrian,  Michigan.  The  next  year  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  Greek 
in  that  institution,  where  he  remained  as  professor  in  charge  until  1894, 
with  the  exception  of  two  years,  1890  and  1891,whi;h  he  spent  in 
study  at  the  University  of  Leipsic,  Germany.  In  1894,  in  the  absence 
of  Professor  William  A.  Heidel,  he  was  invited  to  come  to  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University  as  acting  professor  of  Greek,  and  in  1895  he  was 
elected  professor. 

In  one  year  he  has  fully  justified  the  statements  made  by  those 
recommending  him  as  a  talented  man,  a  ripe  sc>.olar,  and  a  successful 
teacher.  It  is  no  disparagement  to  the  other  noble  men  who  have  occu- 
pied the  chair  of  Greek  to  say  that  at  no  time  in  the  history  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University  has  Greek  been  made  more  popular  and  the  work 
of  the  department  of  a  better  grade  in  extent  or  character. 

He  is  pure  minded,  deeply  in  love  with  his  profession  as  a  teacher, 
a  close  student  of  human  nature,  almost  intuitively  perceives  the 
thoughts  of  his  students,  and  employs  miost  rational  pedagogical  methods 
of  instruction  and  class  government. 


MARTHA  LUELLA  DENMAN,  PROFESSOR  OF  BELLES  LETTRES. 

Martha  Luella  Denman.  B.  A.,  Professor  of  Belles  Lettres.  is  a 
native  of  McLean  county.  Left  an  orphan  in  childhood,  she  found  a 
home  with  her  uncle  Smith  Denman  at  Nokomis,  Illinois.  She  attended 
the  public  schools  until  fifteen  years  of  age,  when  she  entered  the  State 

Normal,  where  she  pursued  a  ^ 

five  years'  course  of  study,  com- 
pleting both  the  normal  and 
high  school  courses.  In  the 
meantime,  however,  she  ac- 
quired considerable  experience 
in  teaching  in  the  public  schools 
and  showed  marked  ability  in 
that  profession.  In  September, 
1889,  she  entered  Smith  Col- 
lege, Massachusetts,  where  she 
remained  in  study  for  two  years, 
and  then  for  one  year  was  prin- 
cipal of  the  high  school  at  Hill:- 
boro,  Illinois.  She  entered  the 
senior  class  of  the  Michigan 
University  in  1892,  and  was 
graduated  in  June,  1893.  when 
she  was  called  to  the  university 
as  instructor  in   English.     Here 

she  showed  her  eminent  qualifi-  martha  luella  denman. 

cations  and  was  elected  to  the  Charles  Cramp  professorship  of  belles 
lettres  in  1894.  She  created  great  enthusiasm  in  the  university  upon 
these  subjects.  Her  influence  upon  the  body  of  the  students,  especially 
upon  the  young  women,  is  most  wholesome  and  refining. 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH   AND    ALUMNI  RECORD. 


ROBERT  BENSON  STEELE.  PROFESSOR  OF  LATIN. 

Robert  Benson  Steele.  B.  A..  M.  A..  Ph.  D..  professor  of  Latin, 
was  bom  in  Lodi.  Wisconsin,  where,  on  a  farm,  he  spent  his  childhood 
and  youth.     He  was  graduated  from  the   University  of  Wisconsin  in 

1883.  From  1883  to  1885 
he  taught  school  in  Wisconsin, 
when  he  entered  Johns  Hop- 
kins University  for  graduate 
work.  In  1886  he  was  elected 
professor  of  Latin  in  Antioch 
College.  Yellow  Springs,  Ohio, 
which  position  he  filled  for  two 
years.  He  re-entered  Johns 
Hopkins  university  in  1888, 
having  been  appointed  one  of 
the  university  scholars  for  that 
year  in  1889  he  received  the 
appointment  of  Fellow  in  Latin. 
In  June  of  this  year  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  M.  A. 
from  his  alma  maier  ox\  exam- 
ination with  a  thesis  on  the 
Greek  in  Cicero's  Epistles. 
He  took  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Philosophy  from  Johns  Hop- 
kins University  in  1890.  and 
was  elected  professor  of  Latin  in  St.  Olaf  College.  Northfield,  Minne- 
sota: in  1891  he  was  called  to  the  chair  of  Latin  in  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University,  where  he  has  sustained  his  scholarly  reputation.  In  the  fall 
of  1894  he  was  happily  united  in  marriage  with  Elizabeth  J.  Reed. 


ROBERT  BENSON  STEELE. 


Professor  Steele  is  not  only  a  master  in  his  own  de^iartment,  but  is 
perfectly  at  home  in  history.  English  literature,  G'^ek  and  philosophy. 
For  several  years  he  has  had  charge  of  the  English  classics  in  the  pre- 
paratory school  and  directed  the  study  and  composition  required. 

MRS.     ELIZABETH     J.    STEELE. 

Miss  Elizabeth  J.  Reed,  now  Mrs,  Professor  Steele,  is  a  native  of 
Illinois.  She  acquired  an  elementary  education  in  the  public  schools, 
and   graduated  from    Hedding  College,  receiving   the   degree   of    B.  A. 

After  ssveral  years'  experience  in 
the  public  schools  as  a  teacher, 
she  taught  in  Abingdon  College 
for  two  years,  after  which  she 
spent  some  time  in  Vellesley 
Collage,  Massachusetts,  in  special 
study  of  history  and  literature. 
Upon  her  return  she  was  em- 
ployed as  teacher  of  rhetoric  and 
literature  in  the  high  school 
at  Monmouth,  Illinois,  when  she 
was  called  to  the  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan University  as  instructor  in 
English  in  1890,  ani  filled  the 
position  with  eminent  ability  until 
1893.  In  June,  1893,  she  re- 
ceived the  d3gree  of  Ph.  D.,  on 
examination,  from  Allegheny  Col- 
lege, Pennsylvania.  She  was 
married  to  Robert  B.  Steele, 
in  the  fall  of  1894,  and  remains  a  member  of  the  university  society. 


MRS.    ELIZABETH   J.   STEELE. 


ILLINOIS    WESLEY  AN    UNIVERSITY. 


109 


CALVIN    W.  CRFrr',   PRINCIPAL    PREPARATORY    SCHOOL. 

Calvin  W.  Green.  B.  A..  M.  A.,  Principal  of  the  Preparatory 
School,  is  a  native  of  Ohio.  He  obtained  his  element.-^ry  educati-n  in 
the  country  school,  in  the  high  school  at  Ottawa,  rnd  in  the  N-rmal 
School  at  Ada,  Ohio.  He  was 
graduated  from  the  Ohio  Wes- 
leyan  University  in  1885.  Dur- 
ing his  college  course  he  was 
President  Payne's  private  secre- 
tary for  more  than  a  year,  and 
while  yet  in  the  Freshmen  clfss 
tutored  in  the  preparatory  school. 
In  1886  he  taught  Mathematics 
and  Latin  in  Greenville  college, 
Kentucky,  and  in  1887  was  prin- 
cipal of  Science  Grove  seminary, 
Roberts,  Ky..  where  he  remained 
until  1889,  when  elected  princ;- 
pal  of  the  preparatory  school  of 
the  university. 

As  a  teacher  Professor  Green 
is  clear,  quick,  and  precise, 
mathematics  and  Latin  being  his 

specialties.      He,    however,     has  "'"^'^    w.  green. 

demonstrated  his  ability  as  an  all  round  teacher,  and  has  taught  most 
successfully  classes  in  history  and  English,  and  for  one  term  taught  the 
college  class  in  trigonometry.  He  has  rare  gifts  as  a  principal,  is  firm 
and  yet  kind.  Under  his  efficient  management  the  preparatory  school 
is  not  only  thoroughly  organized  as  a  department  of  the  university,  but 
most  efficient  in  preparing  students  for  the  work  of   the  college.     Since 


1890  he  has  taught  annually  in  the  McLean  county  Institute,  to  which 
W3rk  he  is  well  adapted.  He  has  been  active,  earnest,  and  successful 
in  promoting  the  interests  of  the  Christian  Associations  of  the  university. 

ALICE    S.    MILLER,  ASSISTANT    IN    PREPARATORY  SCHOOL. 

Mrs.  Alice  S.  Miller  was  born  near  Hillsboro,  Ohio,  and  attended 
the  public  schools.      Hiving  come  to  Illinois  in  1858,  she  entered  the 

State  Normal  University,  where 
she  pursued  t  h  e  professional 
course  of  study  with  a  view  to 
teaching.  After  completing  her 
course,  she  taught  successfully  in 
the  public  schools  of  Bloomington, 
Towanda,  in  the  high  school  at 
Chenoa,  where  she  also  acted  as 
superintendent  one  year,  which 
position  she  resigned  to  accept 
the  position  of  assistant  county 
superintendent  of  schools  of  Mc- 
Lean county.  The  duties  of  this 
office  she  performed  with  faith- 
fulness and  marked  ability  for 
five  years.  Her  teaching  in  the 
Wesleyan  has  been  of  the  most 
excellent  quality.  She  is  a  wo- 
man of  rare  common  sense,  of 
fine  administrative  and  executive 
ability  and  of  highest  Christian 
character.  Her  husband  was  county  superintendent  for  thirteen  years. 
The  only  child.  Leona,  is  a  member  of  the  present  sophomore  class. 


MRS.  ALICE  S.   MILLER. 


Leonidas   Hamline   Kerrick. 


ILLINOIS    WlrSLBYAN    UNIVki^SlTY. 


Ill 


50nE    CHIEF  GRADUATES. 


LEONIDAS    HAMLINE    KERRICK. 

Leonidas  Hamline  Kerrick,  chairman  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  board  of  trustees,  was  born  in  1846,  and  is  the  son  of  a  Methodist 
minister.  He  entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  from  Woodford 
county,  Illinois,  and  completed  its  course  of  study  in  1866.  For  one 
year  he  was  principal  of  the  model  school,  which  was  the  forerunner  of 
the  prepa-atory  department.  In  1867  he  accompanied  Professor  John 
W.  Powell  on  his  exploring  expedition  to  the  Rocky  Mountains. 

Immediately  after  his  graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law  and 
was  admitted  to  its  practice  in  1868.  In  1871  he  was  elected  by  the 
Republicans  a  member  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Legislature,  at  which 
time  the  new  constitution  was  adopted.  His  opponent  for  the  nomina- 
tion was  Hon.  Thomas  Mitchell,  a  man  of  extended  experience  and  of 
fine  ability.  In  1868  he  was  married  to  Sallie  E.  Funk,  the  only 
daughter  of  Hon.  Isaac  Funk. 

Early  in  1870  Mr.  Kerrick's  health  failed  him,  since  which  time  he 
has  not  devoted  himself  to  the  practice  of  law,  but  to  farming.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  chief  men  of  the  First  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  and  also  one  of  the  most  efficient  members  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  university.  As  a  student  Mr.  Kerrick  was  a 
favorite,  and  the  advancing  years  have  not  lessened  that  element  in  his 
character,  as  to  this  day  he  is  a  favorite  among  the  graduates,  and  no 


official  visits  the  university  who  is  more  heartily  welcom.ed  by  faculty 
and  students.  He  is  quiet  and  unobtrusive  in  manner,  kind  and  sympa- 
thetic in  spirit,  generous  by  nature,  and  always  ready  to  respond  to 
appeals  for  help.  He  is  regarded  among  the  graduates  as  their  best 
after-dinner  speaker. 

WILLIAM    FLETCHER    SHORT,    1854. 

The  second  degree  conferred  by  the  university  was  B.  A.,  upon 
Rev.  William  Fletcher  Short,  whose  character,  attainments  and  life 
work  fully  justify  the  action.  He  was  born  in  Ohio,  1829;  prepared  for 
college  in  the  public  schools  of  Illinois,  studied  at  McKendree  and  com- 
pleted his  course  at  the  Wesleyan,  1854;  entered  upon  the  ministry  in 
1856  and  served  charges  at  Winchester,  Carlinville,  Hillsboro.  and 
Jacksonville.  In  1871  he  succeeded  the  sainted  George  Rutledge  as 
presiding  elder  of  the  Jacksonville  district,  and,  at  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  office,  became  president  of  the  historic  Illinois  Female  College. 
ThispDsition  he  held  with  dignity,  grace  and  efficiency,  until  1893.  when 
he  resigned  to  accept  the  superintendency  of  the  State  institution  for 
the  blind,  which  was  tendered  him  by  Governor  Altgelt.  Ohio  Wes- 
leyan recognized  his  character  and  scholarship  and  honored  him  with 
the  degree  of  S.  T.  D.,  in  1879,  and  the  Illinois  Conference  gave  him 
distinction  by  electing  him  delegate  to  the  General  Conference,  in  1880. 


Joseph  W.  Fifer. 


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Joseph  Wilson  Fifer, 

Class  of  ises. 


Ex-Governor  Joseph  W.  Fifer.  B.  S.,  LL.  D..  is  one  of  our  most 
distinguished  sons.  We  cannot  do  better  in  presenting  the  salient  fea- 
tures of  his  life  and  character  than  to  present  a  brief  sketch  from  the 
Pekin  Daily  Evening  Post  of  March  25.  1895: 

■■  The  pathetic  story  of  ex-Governor  Fifer's  heroic  career  has  now 
almost  become  a  thrice  told  tale  am.ong  the  people  of  Illinois.  His  early 
hardships  and  privations:  his  patriotic  though  obscure  service  in  the 
war:  his  terrible  gunshot  wound  through  the  body,  which  would  have 
killed  a  less  determined  and  heroic  man  ;  his  subsequent  struggles  to 
procure  an  education  in  the  midst  of  the  ill-health  and  disabilities  occa- 
sioned by  his  wound:  his  rise  from  obscurity  to  a  position  as  one  of  the 
best  lawyers  in  the  State,  then  to  the  State  senate,  and  finally  to  be 
governor — all  this,  we  say,  has  endeared  Mr.  Fifer  to  the  people  of  Illi- 
nois, and  has  made  his  figure  a  heroic  one  in  the  annals  of  our  b:loved 
commonwealth. 

••  Joseph  Wilson  Fifer  was,  like  Lincoln,  born  in  a  slave  State. 
From  Staunton,  Virginia,  where  he  was  born,  his  father  removed  to  the 
western  part  of  McLean  county  in  1857,  where  he  opened  a  small  farm 
in  the  forest.  The-e  the  elder  Fifer  built  a  rude  log  cabin,  which  shel- 
tered Joseph  with  the  rest  of  the  family  until  the  war  came  on.  The 
elder  Fifer  was  a  brick-layer,  and  Joseph  learned  that  trade  from  his 
father,  and  alternated  between  farm  work  and  laying  brick,  getting  but 
small  education  in  the  winter  m.onths  at  the  common  district  school. 
Then  the  war  opened  and  troops  were  called  for,  and  early  in  the  spring 
of  '61  Joseph  and  his  brother,  George  Fifer,  walked  fifteen  miles  to 
Bloomington  and  enlisted  in  the  33rd  Illinois  Infantry,  which  soon  went 
to  the  front,  and  did  great  fighting.      Mr.  Fifer  participated  in  all  battles 


of  the  memorable  Vicksburg  campaign  of  '63.  and.  at  Jackson,  Missis- 
sippi, on  July  13,  1863.  in  the  miast  of  an  assault  upon  the  rebel  en- 
trenchments, he  fell  pierced  by  a  minie  rifle  ball,  which  passed  through 
his  right  lung  and  also  through  the  upper  part  of  his  liver,  a  kind  of 
injury  from  which  few  men  have  ever  recovered.  Mr.  Fifer  served  out 
his  time,  and  returning  home  began  in  1864  his  still  more  heroic  strug- 
gle to  obtain  an  education,  which  has  been  told  and  retold,  and  really 
cannot  be  told  too  often  for  the  encouragement  of  the  rising  generation 
of  Americans.  It  is  enough  to  say  here  that  he  succeeded,  and  in  June, 
1868,  took  his  diploma  from  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  at  Bloom- 
ington. 

Still  goaded  on  by  his  ambition,  and  by  the  spur  of  poverty,  he  be- 
gan the  study  of  law,  and  the  year  1869  found  his  shingle  swinging  to 
the  breeze  at  Bloomington.  His  career  from  that  time  is  well  known. 
He  was  first  corporation  counsel  of  the  city  of  Bloomington,  then 
State's  attorney  two  terms,  in  which  latter  office  he  was  a  terror  to  evil 
doers,  and,  though  meeting  somie  of  the  ablest  criminal  lawyers  in  the 
State,  no  felon  who  was  really  guilty  ever  escaped  him.  The  Republi- 
cans of  McLean  county  next  elevated  him  to  the  State  senate,  where 
he  did  able  work  and  began  to  acquire  a  State  reputation,  and  in  1888 
he  was  called  from  a  retirement  which  he  had  voluntarily  sought,  to  be- 
come the  Republican  candidate  for  governor,  to  which  office  he  was 
elected.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  he  administered  the  governor's 
office  with  a  high  intelligence  and  impartiality  which  has  won  him  the 
enconiums  of  fair  men  of  all  parties. 

■•  Mr.  Fifer  is  six  feet  in  height  with  his  boots  on.  spare  in  flesh,  of 
a  swarthy,  rather  dark  complexion,  keen  black  eyes,  with  a  heavy  head 
of  coarse  black  hair,  now  turning  gray.  His  carriage  is  erect,  his 
movements  elastic,  his  weight  about  150  pounds,  though  his  frame  is 
larger  than  is  indicated  by  his  weight,  and  he  possesses   great  physical 


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strength  in  proportion  to  the  volume  of  his  muscles.  His  endurance  is 
marvelous.  He  has  a  wife  and  two  children,  to  whom  he  is  devotedly 
attached,  and  who  claim  all  the  better  fruits  of  his  life  and  labors.  Mr. 
Fifer  was  as  able  and  upright  a  governor  as  Illinois  ever  had,  because 
he.  like  all  the  best  of  American  statesmen,  is  one  of  the  people.  He 
is  one  of  the  best  types  of  the  best  people,  of  the  best  nation  in 
the  world. 

In  advocating  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Fifer  for  vice-president  on  the 
Republican  ticket  in  1896.  the  Post,  among  other  things,  said:  "We 
do  not  claim  that  the  party  is  narrowed  down  to  one  man  like  our  friends 
in  the  other  camp.  But  we  do  believe  that  among  the  brainy  statesmen 
of  Illinois  today  none  of  them  are  better  qualified  or  so  well  known  as 
Governor  Fifer.  and  surely  none  will  arouse  more  popular  enthusiasm." 

The  defeat  of  Governor  Fifer  for  re-election  in  1892  was  doubtless 
due  mainly  to  the  firm  stand  he  took  in  favor  of  compulsory  education, 
his  view  being  pronounced  and  advanced.  Whatever  may  be  his  politi- 
cal fortunes  in  the  future,  the  name  and  presence  of  Joseph  W.  Fifer 
will  ever  arouse  enthusiasm  among  the  students  and  friends  of  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  who  remember  his  struggles  for  an  educa- 
tion, his  lofty  ambition  to  excel  by  rigid  conscientious  devotion  to  correct 
principle,  and  his  manly  and  pure  life  in  public  and  private. 

JOHN  V.  W.   BAUMAN.  CLASS  OF    1863. 

John  V.  W.  Bauman  was  born  in  Buford.  Highland  county,  Ohio, 
in  1 84 1 ,  and  when  ten  years  old  came  to  Tazewell  county,  Illinois.  Here 
in  the  home  of  his  grandfather,  a  Methodist  local  preacher,  his  taste  for 
reading  was  encouraged  and  his  time  as  a  pupil  in  the  country  schools 
was  so  well  improved  that  at  the  age  of  eighteen  he  was  a  successful 
teacher  in  the  schools  of  Macon  and  Tazewell  counties. 

He  entered  the  Wesleyan  in  the  fall  of  1860,  and  with  the  excep- 


tion of  part  of  the  spring  term  of  1862,  which  was  spent  in  the  army, 
pursued  his  studies  continuously  until  his  graduation  in  1863.  He  was 
appointed  to  a  position  in  the  city  schools  of  Bloomington.  where  he 
taught  for  a  time.  In  September  of  1864  he  joined  the  Illinois  Confer- 
ence and  was  appointed  successively  to  Danville,  Paxton  and  Mattoon, 

ANDREW    STICKLE     WILSON,   CLASS    OF     1868. 

Judge  Andrew   Stickle  Wilson,  M.  A.,  was  born  in    1847,  at    Mt. 

Zion.  Macon  county,  Illinois.  His 
father,  Rev.  James  J.  Wilson, 
was  a  minister  in  the  Cumber- 
land Presbyterian  church.  After 
serving  for  a  short  period  as  a 
private  in  Company  K,  145  Illi- 
nois Volunteer  Infantry,  Andrew 
S.  entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University.  After  graduation  he 
commenced  the  study  of  law  in 
the  office  of  Stuart,  Edwards  and 
Brown,  in  Springfield,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Illinois  in  March, 
1869.  He  immediately  located 
in  Washington,  Kansas,  where  he 
opened  a  law  office.  In  the  fall 
of  that  year  he  was  elected  to  the 
'egislalure  of  Kansas,  and  was  re- 

JAMES  B.  TAYLOR.      SEE  PAGE  97.       elected    in    1870.      He   was   the 

youngest  member  of  both  sessions 
of  the  legislature.      In   the   spring  of   1871,   he  was  appointed,   by  the 


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governor  of  Kansas,  judge  of  the  Twelfth  judicial  district  of  Kansas, 
which  position  he  held  for  fourteen  years,  having  been  elected  three 
times.  He  then  resigned,  and  opened  a  law  office  in  Washington, 
Kansas,  where  he  practiced  until  1889.  when  he  removed  to  Sioux  City, 
Iowa,  where  he  is  still  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.  his  firm  name 
being  Wilson  and  Quick. 

ROBERT   EMMET   MOOR";.   CLASS  OF    1869. 

Robert  Emmet  Moore,  B.  A.,  M.  A.,  son  of  Rev.  W.  H.  H.  M  jcre, 
of  the  Illinois  Conference,  was  born 
in  Clark  county,  Illinois,  in  1849. 
He  entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University  in  1865  and  was  gradu- 
ated in  1869.  He  studied  law  for 
two  years  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  Champaign.  Illinois,  but  be- 
gan his  practice  in  Lincoln.  Nebras- 
ka, where  he  still  resides. 

For  six  years  he  devoted  himself 
exclusively  to  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  but  since  that  tiane  he 
has  been  engaged  in  a  general  bro- 
kerage and  banking  business,  in 
which  he  has  been  eminently  suc- 
cessful, having  amassed  a  handsome 
fortune.  He  was  elected  as  police 
judge  of  his  city  and  served  one 
term;    was    mayor   from    1883    to  robert  emmit  moore. 

1885.  and  served  as   State   senator 
three    different    terms,  to  the    great    satisfaction    of    his   constituency. 


Mr.  Moore  is  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Munseilian  liter- 
ary society,  and  in  those  diys  when  the  literary  sDciety  hails  furnished 
the  chief  opportunity  for  a  development  of  literary  and  forensic  talent. 
he  was  recognized  as  a  leader.  In  logic  he  was  a  master,  and  in  debate 
was  a  formidable  antagonist.  As  a  student,  he  was  both  thorough  and 
accurate.    He  delivered  the  Master'.^:  oration  before  the  university.  1872. 

ALEXANDER  CLAY  BY -RLY.  CLASS  OF  1871. 

Alexander  Clay  Byerly.  A.  M.,  D.  D..  was  born  in  Johnson  county. 
Indiana,  August  21  1842.  In  his 
boyhood  he  removed  to  De  Witt 
county.  Illinois,  where  he  grew  to 
manhood.  His  early  life  was  spent 
on  a  farm.  When  eighteen  years  of 
age  he  enlisted  in  the  army,  enter- 
ing the  Mississippi  Marine  Biigade. 
After  the  war  he  returned  home  and 
soon  became  a  soldier  of  Christ, 
uniting  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  Duty's  call  made  him  a 
minister  of  the  gospel  and  led  him 
to  prepare  to  preach  by  entering  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  where 
he  pursued  the  classical  course,  pay- 
ing his  way  by  his  own  efforts  until 
his  graduation  in  1871.  Three  years 
thereafter  his  alma  mater  conferred 
on  this  Bachelor  in  Artibus  the  de-  Alexander  c.  byerly. 

gree  of   A.    M.,   and    in    1894  gave 
him  the  honorary  degree  of  D.  D.      In  1871  he  joined  the  Illincis  Annual 


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Conference.  After  serving  the  church  as  pastor  for  twenty-one  years, 
his  last  charge  being  First  Church.  Springfield,  he  was  appointed  pre- 
siding elder  of  Champaign  district,  and  now  resides  in  Urbana.  Thor- 
ough as  a  student,  practical  and  often  powerful  as  a  preacher,  able  as 
an  executive  officer,  he  is  a  worthy  son  of  this  institution  and  of  the  church. 
He  is  now  presiding  elder  on  the  Champaign  district,  and  is  evincing 
more  than  ordinary  skill  in  dedicating  churches,  and  bids  fair  to  rival 
those  of  greater  fame. 


and  Barbara  Heck. 


DAVID  L.   BRETHOUR.  CLASS  OF    1! 

David  L.  Brethour.  Ph.  B..  1888.  M.  A.,  1890,  Ph.  D.,  1892. 
traces  his  lineage  back  to  the  Palatines,  of  which  were  Philip  Embury 
His  secondary  education  was  obtained  in  the  high 
school  of  the  Province  Ontario,  Canada. 
He  was  sometime  a  student  of  Victoria 
University ;  entered  the  ministry  of  the 
Methodist  church  in  Canada  in  1860,  and 
has  served  many  of  the  best  charges  in 
his  conference  ;  is  now  stationed  at  Ham- 
ilton, Ontario.  He  has  served  as  chair- 
man of  various  districts  and  was  elected 
president  of  the  Niagara  Conference  in 
1887  ;  has  been  secretary  of  the  station- 
ing committee  for  many  years,  also  treas- 
urer of  the  Conference  Educational  Socie- 
ty, and  member  of  the  board  of  examiners  ; 
elected  to  the  General  Conference  for  five 
quadrenniums;  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  standing  Committee  on 
Temperance;  in  1891  had  charge  of  the  Church  movement  for  prohibi- 
tion in  Canada;  in  1894  took  leading  part  in  the  Canada  Temperance  Act. 


DAVID  L.   BRETHOUR 


BENJAMIN    WEBB    BAKER,  CLASS    OF     1874. 

President  Benjamin  Wsbb  Baker,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  was  born 
in  Coles.  Illinois,  1841.  He  was  one  of  those  fortunate  men  whose 
parents  were  poor  yet  honest  and  industrious.  President  Baker  was  left 
fatherless  when  but  a  child,  and  was  compelled  to  aid  in  earning  a  live- 
lihood for  his  widowed  mother,  and  upon  a  timbered  farm  laid  the  foun- 
dations for  a  rugged  physical 
manhood  and  a  stalwart  mor- 
al character.  He  attended 
the  select  subscription  school 
a  few  months  annually  until 
1861,  when  he  enlisted  in 
Co.  E,  25th  Illinois  Volunteer 
Infantry,  and  during  three 
years  participated  in  many 
hard  fought  battles.  In  1865 
he  took  up  a  more  heroic 
battle  to  gain  an  education, 
and  entered  the  Illinois  State 
Normal  University,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in 
1870,  at  which  time  also  he 
was  elected  principal  of  the 
Grammar  d3partment,  which 
position  he  held  for  four 
years.      In  1870  he   entered 

the  Illinois Wesleyan  University,  from  which  he  has  successively  taken 
his  degrees^  In  1874  he  united  with  the  Central  Illinois  Conference, 
and  witn  the  exception  of  one  year  in  Denver  has  given  most  efficient 
service  to  the  Church,  having    been  presiding  elder    for  one  full  term, 


BENJAMIN    WEBB     BAKER. 


ILLINOIS     WE5LEYAN    UNIVERSITY. 


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in    which    position    he    displayed    rare    administrative    ability. 

He  represented  his  conference  in  the  General  Conference  of  1888. 
in  1890  he  became  financial  secretary  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity, which  office  he  held  until  1893.  He  brought  to  this  position,  so 
difficult  to  fill,  unbounded  enthusiasm,  great  faith  in  his  cause,  extraordi- 
nary endurance  and  rare  skill  in  interesting  the  common  people  and 
youth  in  the  cause  of  Christian  education,  and  in  securing  the  endow- 
ments that  have  come  to  the  university  since  1888,' 

In  1895  he  was  elected  president  of  Chaddock  College,  where  he 
is  waging  a  desperately  earnest  and  heroic  battle  to  establish  that  insti- 
tution and  save  it  to  Methodism.  If  President  Baker  does  not  win  this 
battle,  it  cannot  be  won,  for  no  man  is  better  adapted  to  the  conditions, 
and  no  one  more  self-sacrificing  and  heroic.  He  has  faithfully  served 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  for  many  years  as  trustee,  and  will  ever 
be  remembered  as  one  who  has  contributed  largely  to  its  success. 

DAVID    MADISON    HARRIS,  CLASS    OF     1867. 

In  1867,  a  tall,  angular  youth  who  had  given  unusually  close  atten- 
tion to  study,  delivered  his  graduating  oration  and  received  his  diploma 
from  the  university.  Like  Dr.  H.  C.  DeMotte,  David  Madison  Harris, 
B.  A.,  M.  A..  Ph.  D.,  D.  D.,  gave  himself  to  the  honorable  profession 
of  teaching  and  was  called  to  the  chair  of  natural  science  at  Lincoln 
University  in  1868  ;  in  1870  he  was  transferred  to  the  department  of 
Greek  in  the  institution  and  there  remained  teaching  with  great  success 
until  1883,  when  he  was  elected  editor-in-chief  of  the  "Cumberland 
Presbyterian,"  the  leading  periodical  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
Church,  of  which  communion  Dr.  Harris  is  a  member.  Since  1891  he 
has  edited  the  "  Saint  Louis  Observer,"  of  which  he  is  also  proprietor. 
He  has  traveled  and  studied  extensively  in  Europe,  giving  especial  at- 
tention to  economics  and  sociology,  in  France.  Germany,  and    England. 


Joseph  C.  Hartzell. 

Class  of  i868. 


Rev.  Joseph  C.  Hartzell.  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  began  life  as  a  farmer  boy 
in  the  broad  prairies  of  Illinois.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  taught  his 
first  common  school,  and  from,  that  time  for  eleven  years  he  gave  his 
best  efforts  toward  securing   a  thorough  education   in  order  to  fully  fit 

himself  for  his  chosen  work,  the  ministry. 


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In  order  he  completed  a  high  school  course,  the  classical  course  in 
the  Illinois  Wesieyan  University,  receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B.:  and  the 
theological  course  in  Garrett  Biblical  institute,  receiving  the  degree  of 
B.  D.  In  1879.  both  the  Illinois  Wesieyan  University  and  the  Alle- 
gheny College  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  D.  D. 

He  began  his  ministry  in  the  Central  Illinois  Conference,  and  was 
stationed  at  Pekin  in  1868,  from  which  charge  he  was  transferred  to 
New  Orleans,  where  he  served  as  pastor  of  Ames  church  for  three 
years.  For  nine  years  thereafter  he  was  presiding  elder,  and  while 
serving  in  this  capacity  he  founded  and  edited  the  Southwestern  Chris- 
tian Advocate,  making  it  such  an  important  factor  in  the  work  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  the  South  that  it  became  a  General 
Conference  publication. 

He  was  elected  assistant  corresponding  secretary  of  the  Freed- 
man"s  Aid  and  Southern  Educational  Society,  which  position  he  filled 
with  marked  ability  for  six  years.  At  the  General  Conference  of  1888. 
he  was  elected  corresponding  secretary  of  the  same  society,  and  was 
re-elected  to  the  same  position  at  the  General  Conference  of  1892. 

In  addition  to  the  work  in  the  specific  field  to  which  the  church 
has  assigned  him.  Dr.  Hartzell  has  done  much  to  mould  public  senti- 
ment in  the  South  in  favor  of  a  broader,  more  humanitarian  civilization. 
While  in  New  Orleans  he  was  a  member  of  the  city  school  board,  and 
did  much  in  the  reorganization  of  the  public  schools  of  that  city.  To 
his  energy,  faith  and  perseverance  is  due  much  of  the  success  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  throughout  the  South. 

Dr.  Hartzell  is  a  man  of  splendid  physique,  of  good  personal  pres- 
ence, eminently  sociable,  possessing  more  than  ordinary  magnetism  as 
a  platform  orator,  and  wields  a  power  for  good  in  the  world  which  few 
indeed  would  attain.  He  has  been  called  to  some  of  the  most  honora- 
ble and  most  responsible  positions  in  the  church  of  his  choice,  and  by 


his  natural  endowments,  acquired  power,  and  conscientious  efforts  he 
has  uniformly  filled  those  positions  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  church. 
He  is  a  leader,  especially  in  the  work  of  the  church  in  the  South,  and 
to  his  suave  manner,  his  quiet  demeanor,  even  under  provocation,  and 
his  good,  straightforward,  practical  common  sense  is  to  be  attributed 
much  of  the  success  of  the  educational  and  church  work  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church  in  the  South. 

MARQUIS    L.     FULLINWIDER.'CLASS  OF     1871. 

Marquis  L.  Fullinwider.  B.  A..  M.  A.,  M.  D.,  was  born  in  Mechat^- 
icsburg.  Illinois,  in  1849.  He  entered  the  Illinois  Wesieyan  University 
in  1867.  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1871.  He  entered  the  med- 
ical department  of  the  University  of  Vermont  in  1872  and  graduated 
from  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago,  in  1875.  Practiced  his  profes- 
sion in  Mechanicsburg.  Illinois,  until  1882,  when  he  removed  to  Eldo- 
rado, Kansas,  where  he  has  built  up  a  large  and  lucrative  practice. 

Dr.  Fullenwider  is  a  devoted  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  and  for  many  years  was  a  most.,  successful  superintendsnt  of  its 
Sunday  School.  He  married  Miss  Clara  Munsell,  daughter  i.f  Charles 
W.  C.  Munsel,  in  1876, 

RICHARD    H.    BOSWORTH,  CLASS  OF     1875. 

Richard  H.  Bosworth  prepared  for  college  in  the  academy  of  the 
Northwestern  University  ;  entered  the  Illinois  Wesieyan  University  in 
1871  and  was  graduated  in  1875;  entered  the  Reformed  Episcopal 
church  in  1875.  and  was  stationed  in  Chicago.  He  graduated  from  the 
Garrett  Biblical  Institute  in  1880.  Pastor  of  the  Reformed  Episcopa- 
lian church  at  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  1885;  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  1887.  In 
1889  he  accepted  a  position  as  assistant  at  Plymouth  Congregational 
church.  Brooklyn.  N.  Y.  In  1893,  president  Brooklyn  Chautaqua  Union  ; 
in  1894,  pastor  Congregational  church,  Springfield,  Mass. 


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Harry  Qrat  Reeves. 

Class  of  inee. 

The  portrait  here  given  represents  Colo- 
nel Harry  G.  Reeves,  M.  A.,  of  Bloom- 
ington,  a  prominent  citizen  and  a  loyal  son 
of  t  le  Wesleyan.  Colonel  Reeves  is  a 
member  of  the  State  Commission  of 
Claims.  He  was  raised  on  a  farm  in  Old 
Town  township.  McLean  county.  Illinois, 
and  entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity in  the  fall  of  1860  ;  and  together  with 
many  other  students  he  served  a  term  in 
the  United  States  Army  as  a  member  of 
Company  G,  63th  Regiment.  Illinois  Vol- 
unteers. This  company  was  made  up 
entirely  of  college  boys. 

After  his  discharge  from  the  army  he 
taught  school,  completed  his  course  in  the 
university,  and  graduated  with  high  honors 
in  1866. 

December  25.  1867.  he  married  Miss 
Harriet  Niccclls  of  Bloomington.  andthey 
have  one  daughter. 

He  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1867.  He  has  been  an  alderman, 
private  secretary  to  ex-Governor  Fifer. 
judge  advocate  of  the  Second  brigade, 
Illinois  National  Guard,  and  at  present  oc- 
cupies the  honorable  and  responsible  posi- 


tion of  a  member  of  Illinois  State  Claims  Commission,  hav 


Harry  Gray  Reeves. 


ing  received  this  office  by  the  appointment  of 
Governor  Altgeld. 

For  many  years  Colonel  Reeves  was 
the  secretary  and  attorney  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan,  and  he 
has  rendered  his  alma  mater  valuable  ser- 
vice. He  has  also  been  president  of  the 
Alumni  Association,  and  has  always  taken 
an  active  personal  interest  in  the  affairs  of 
the  university. 

Colonel  Reeves  is  now  actively  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  law.  and  with  his  wife 
and  daughter  resides  in  a  delightful  home 
on  North  Main  Street.  The  Reeves  resi- 
dence is  celebrated  for  its  hospitality,  and 
there  all  the  friends  of  the  Wesleyan 
always  receive  a  most  cordial  welcome. 

This  distinguished  alumnus  enjoys  a 
wide  and  extensive  acquaintance  through- 
out the  State,  and  hundreds  of  young  men 
and  women  are  willing  witnesses  to  his 
good  advice  and  cheerfully  testify  to  his 
kindness  and  his  helpfulness. 

His  residence  within  a  stone's  throw  of 
the  university  campus  since  the  time  of 
his  graduation  and  his  relation  as  secre- 
tary of  the  board  of  trustees  have  given 
him  a  fund  of  information  concerning  the 
inner  life  of  the  university  and  of  the  grad- 
uates which  is  valuable  and  interesting. 


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GEORGE  E.  SCRIMGER.  CLASS  OF  1874. 

Rev.  George  E.  Scrimger.  B.  A.,  M.  A..  B.  D..  D.  D.,  is  a  native 
of  McLean  county.  Illinois,  having  been  born  at  Selma  in  1849.  The 
days  of  his  youth  were  spent  on  the  farm,  where  habits  of  sobriety,  in- 
dustry, honesty,  and  frugality  were   formed.     His  elementary  education 

was  gained  in  the  public  schools  and 
in  the  preparatory  school  of  the  l!li- 
nois  Wesleyan  University,  which  he 
entered  in  1867.  Having  prepared 
for  college  he  entered  upon  the  col- 
legiate work  with  the  zeal  of  a  young 
man  called  to  a  great  work.  No 
student  was  ever  more  industrious, 
oainstaking.  and  conscientious.  Yet 
in  his  Sophomore  year  he  manifest- 
ed decided  literary  talent,  and  was  a 
favorite  ever  after  as  an  essayist  and 
orator.  After  graduating  in  1874. 
he  was  employed  as  instructor  in 
mathematics. which  position  he  filled 
most  satisfactorily  until  he  entered 
upon  his  life  work,  the  ministry  of 
the  gospel. 

At  the  time  Mr.  Scrimger  entered 
college  it  was  his  ambition  to  enter 
the  profession  of  law  and  give  himself  to  the  political  interests  of  his 
country.  He  was  an  ardent  student  and  admirer  of  the  chief  men  of 
colonial  and  revolutionary  history,  and.  until  nearly  through  college,  his 
ideals  were  selected  from  this  class  ;  but  God  had  destined  him  to  serve 
nis  country  more  directly  through  its  moral,  social,  and  religious  forces. 


GEORGE    E.    SCRIMGER. 


He  answered  that  call  and  entered  upon  the  ministry  in  the  Illinois  Con- 
ference in  1875.  Afterwards  he  entered  Drew  Theological  Seminary 
and  completed  its  full  course,  when  he  returned  to  his  conference  and 
rapidly  rose  to  distinction  in  the  ministry,  filling  pulpits  at  Springfield, 
Quincy,  Decatur,  and  is  now  serving  his  third  year  as  presiding  elder 
of  the  Danville  district. 

As  a  student,  he  is  still  careful  and  painstaking;  as  a  scholar, 
he  is  accurate  and  broad  ;  as  a  minister,  he  is  deeply  spiritual,  prepares 
his  sermons  carefully  and  delivers  them  with  unction  as  a  veritable  man 
of  God  ;  as  a  presiding  officer,  he  is  exceedingly  conscientious  and  truly 
judicious  :  socially,  he  is  most  courteous,  gentlemanly,  and  refined  ;  as 
a  citizen,  he  is  public  spirited  and  thoroughly  loyal  to  the  distinctively 
American  institutions,  while  as  a  man  he  is  the  soul  of  honor,  possesses 
••  truth  in  the  inward  parts,"  and  detests  shams.  His  wife  is  a  woman 
of  culture  and  very  active  in  promoting  the  charitable  work  of  the  church. 

CHARLES    H.    LONG.  CLASS    OF     1873. 

Charles  H.  Long,  B.  S.,  M.  D.,  was  born  n?ar  La  Salle,  Illinois, 
in  1850.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  a  Mslhodist  itinerant  and  his 
father  and  mother  were  devoted  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  Charles,  at  the  early  age  of  thirteen,  was  elected  secretary  of 
the  Sunday  School  of  the  First  Methodist  church.  La  Salle,  Illinois, 
which  society  was  organized  and  whose  building  was  erected  by  the 
father  and  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  From  that  early 
age  to  the  present  he  has  bsen  an  enthusiastic,  consistent,  and  efficient 
worker  in  the  Church  and  Sunday  School. 

He  entered  the  academic  department  of  Wheaton  College,  at  the 
age  of  fifteen,  where  he  spent  two  years.  In  1867  he  entered  the  Illi- 
nois Wesleyan  University  and  was  graduated  in  1873,  having  taught 
several   terms  in  the  meantime  to  gain   funds  for  the  completion  of  his 


ILLINOIS    WBSLBYAN    UNIVERSITY . 


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College  course.  He  was  the  president  of  h's  class  organization.  From 
1873  to  1875  he  was  superintendent  of  the  public  schools  at  IVlackinaw 
and  Stanford,  during  which  tinne  he  began  the  study  of  medicine.     In 

1875  he  entered  the  Hahnemann 
Medical  College  of  Chicago, 
where  he  tookthe  degree  of  M.D., 
in  the  class  of  1878. 

Dr.  Long  located  at  Pontiac, 
Illinois,  where  he  has  built  up  for 
himself  a  large  and  lucrative  prac- 
tice of  medicine  and  surgery, 
a.id  made  for  himself  an  enviable 
record  as  citizen,  gentleman,  and 
Christian.  He  is  modest,  quiet, 
and  unassuming,  yet  a  most  pot- 
ent factor  in  almost  every  enter- 
prise in  the  city  of  Pontiac  which 
is  calculated  to  do  good  unto  his 
fellow  men. 

Dr.  Long  has  been  twice  mar- 
ried ;  first  to  Miss  Martha  Vie- 
mont.  of  Mackinaw.  Illinois,  unto 
whom  were  born  three  children 
the  second,  in  1885.  to  MissLida 
Sterry,  of  Pontiac,  Illinois,  who  has  proved  to  be  a  true  mother  to  his 
motherless  children  as  well  as  unto  Christophef  Sterry  Long,  born  in 
1891.  As  might  be  expected  from  the  character  of  Dr.  Long,  his  home 
is  a  model  Christian  home. 

Dr.  Long  was  elected  by  the  Central  Illinois  conference  as  lay  del- 
ate to  the  General  Conference,  which  will  meet  in  Cleveland.  May  1896. 


CHARLES  H.  LONG. 


JOHN  E.  SCOTT,  CLASS  OF  1873, 

Hon.  John  E.  Scott.  B.  S..  M.  S.,  was  born  in  St.  Clair  county.  Il- 
linois, in  1851.     He  studied  at  McKendree  College,  one  year,  and  en- 
tered the  Illinois  Wesleyan   University  in    1873:  having  read  law  with 
McNulta.  Aldrich  and  Kerrick,   Bloomington.    Ills.,  he  removed  to   In- 
dianapolis, Indiana,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  the  fall  of  that  year.   In 
1875   he   formed  a  law  partnership 
with  Wm.  F.  Graves,  of  1869,  which 
terminated  a  year   later.     In    1881 
he  formed  a  partnership   with  A.  P. 
Stanton,  which  continued  until    dis- 
solved in  August,  1894. 

Mr.  Scott  received  the  Republi- 
can nomination  for  Judge  of  the  Su- 
perior Court  of  Marion  county  in 
1890.  and  was  defeated  with  the  re- 
mainder of  the  ticket  of  that  year. 
On  October  20.  1893.  he  was  made 
City  Attorney,  a  position  which,  un- 
der the  present  city  charter,  is  more 
important  and  its  duties  more  ardu- 
ous than  ever  before.  Mr.  Scott  is 
a  cousin  of  ex-Chief  Justice  John 
M.  Scott,  of  this  city,  and  possesses 
many  of  the  characteristics  of  this  deserving  gentleman.  He  is  a  good 
lawyer  of  a  hard  working,  careful,  unobtrusive  type.  Personally  he  is  a 
kindly,  courteous,  suave  gentleman,  and  well  merits  the  recognition 
gained  and  the  reputation  established  in  the  State  of  Indiana.  We  pre- 
dict that  greater  honors  await  our  already  distinguished  classmate. 


JOHN    E.    SCOTT. 


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ORLANDO    W.   ALDRICH,    CLASS    OF     1869. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  Orlando  W.  Aldrich.  B.  A..  M.  A.,  Ph. 
D..  D.  C.  L..  LL.  D..  is  one  of  the  most  scholarly  men  among  those 
whose  names  honor  the  record  of  the  alumni,  in  1866.  having  been 
licensed  to  preach,  he  joined  the  Central  Illinois  Conference,  but  pur- 
sued his  studies  and  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1869.  It  was 
at  this  time  he  became  much 
interested  in  legal  studies  and 
the  ministry  was  soon  aban- 
doned. From  1876  to  1871 
he  was  a  membsr  of  the  fac- 
ulty of  the  law  school  of  the 
university,  his  accurate  and 
extensive  legal  learning,  studi- 
ous habits  and  excellency  of 
character  eminently  fitting 
him  for  the  position.  During 
a  part  of  this  term  also  he  as- 
sisted in  the  department  of 
philosophy,  in  which  study  he 
was  a  devout  and  enthusiastic 
student.  He  has  been  a  fre- 
quent contributor  to  the  press, 
and  has  had  some  experience 
as  an  editor,  the  American 
edition  of  "Anson  on  Con- 
tracts" having  been  edited  by  him.  aico  tie  articles  on  Elections  in  the 
American  and  English  Encyclopedia  of  Law  are  his  productions.  Since 
1892  he  has  been  professor  of  law  in  the  Ohio  State  University. 


ORLANDO  W.  ALDRICH. 


MARION    V.    CRUMBAKER.  CLASS    OF    1874. 

In  the  State  that  has  produced  so  many  presidents,  jurists,  and 
Methodist  preachers.  Ohio,  was  born  Marion  Victor  Crumbaker,  B^  A., 
M.  A..  D.  D..  Feb.  20.  1847,  and  like  many  others  who  have  afterwards 
come    into   public  life   and   notice,   spent  his  early  life  on  a  farm.      He 

came  to  McLean  county,  Illinois,  in 
1864,  and  soon  after  enlisted  in  the 
152nd  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry, 
spending  seven  months  in  his  coun- 
try's service.  He  was  emphatically 
3ne  of  the  "  Boys  in  B.ue,"  and 
gained  the  reputation  of  being  a  gal- 
ant  Sjldier. 

In  1868  he  was  soundly  converted 
io  God  and  joined  the  Methodist 
i^piscopal  church,  and  in  1869  he 
entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, where;  he  wjs  k;.own  as  a 
lainstaking  s.udent.  His  university 
i  e  was  characterized  by  thorcugh- 
ess.  In  the  year  of  liis  graduation 
\i  entered  the  Central  Illinois  con- 
:';rence  and  spent  eighteen  years  in 
efficient  pastoral  v/ork,  when  he  was 
promoted  to  the  position  of  presiding 
elder  of  the  Macomb  district  in  which  is  hispreseit  field  of  labor.  He 
was  married  to  Miss  Eliza  O.  Fellingham.  Oct.  12.  1880.  and  has  found 
in  her  a  noble  companion  in  his  life  work.  As  a  preacher,  Mr.  Crum- 
baker is  logical,  earnest,  faithful ;  as  an  administrator  he  is  careful,  kind, 
and  unprejudiced.     He  is  delegate  elect  to  the  General  Conference. 


MARION    V.   CRUMBAKiR. 


ILLINOIS    WESLEY  AN    UNIVERSITY. 


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WILLIAM    ALBERT    SMITH.  CLASS    OF    1875. 

Rev.  Wilii-^m  Albert  Smith.  B.  A,,  M.  A.,  was  born  in  Hancock 
county,  Ohio,  December  17,  1848.  When  he  was  but  a  child,  his  father 
emigrated  to  Illinois,  at  first  engaging  in  merchandising,  in  CHntcn.  and 

afterwards  settling  on  a  farm. 
where  he  died  in  1868.  William 
A.  was  therefore,  practically, 
raised  on  a  farm,  and  had  only 
the  meager  advantages  of  a  few 
months'  school  each  year  in  the 
country.  In  February,  1866.  he 
was  converted,  and  united  with 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
under  the  labors  of  Rev.  James 
C.  Rucker.  He  was  soon  im- 
pressed that  the  ministry  was  to 
be  his  life  work,  and  with  this 
conviction  entered  the  prepara- 
tory department  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University,  in  Septem- 
ber, 1867.  Being  without  mesns. 
and  the  support  of  a  widowed 
mother,  and  several  younger 
brothers  and  sisters  largely  de- 
pendent upon  him,  his  studies 
were  frequently  interrupted,  and,  at  times  he  almost  despaired  of  beirg 
able  to  complete  a  college  course.  But  he  persisted,  in  the  face  of 
appalling  discouragem.ents.  and  graduated  with  honor  in  June.  1875. 

He  remained  on  the  farm  with  his  mother  one  year,  rendering  her 
valuable    assistance  and  preaching  as  a  supply  on  the  Clinton  Circuit. 


V/ILLIAM  ALBERT  SMITH. 


In  Septem.ber,  1876,  he  was  received  on  trial  in  the  Illinois  Annual 
Conference  and  appointed  to  Illiopolis.  where  he  served  the  full  pastoral 
term  of  three  years  and  was  very  successful  and  greatly  beloved  by  his 
people.  During  this  pastorate,  in  September,  1877.  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Julia  Milmine,  who  has  shared  the  enthusiasm  and  devotion  of 
her  husband  to  his  high  calling,  and  has  contributed  in  no  small  degree 
to  his  success.  They  have  two  interesting  daughters,  Leia.  aged  six- 
teen, and  Mildred,  aged  seven. 

Cariinville  was  Mr.  Smith's  next  appointment,  a  more  responsible 
position,  which  he  occupied  with  great  satisfaction  to  his  congregation 
for  three  years,  and  was  then  transferred  to  First  Church.  Danville,  in 
September.  1885.  Here  he  spent  four  laborious  and  successful  years. 
Under  his  inspiring  leadership  the  present  splendid  church  edifice  was 
erected  at  a  cost  of  forty-five  thousand  dollars,  and  the  membership 
and  prestige  of  the  congregation  greatly  increased.  At  the  conference 
of  September,  1889,  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Grace  Church,  Blcom- 
in^ton.  where  he  had  his  usual  success  in  all  departments  of  church 
work.  During  his  four  years  in  this  pulpit  the  membership  was  about 
doubled,  and  the  activity  of  the  church  in  benevolent  and  philanthropic 
work  greatly  extended.  In  September,  1893,  he  was  appointed  to  his 
present  charge.  Centenary,  Jacksonville,  where  his  success  has  been 
phenomenal.  Following  an  exceptionally  strong  pastor,  the  congrega- 
tions have  not  only  kept  up.  but  the  church  has  been  in  an  almost  con- 
tinuous revival,  over  two  hundred  new  members  being  added  this  year. 

Measured  by  results.  Mr.  Smiiih  must  be  regarded  as  a  successful 
minister,  and  has  fairly  earned  the  high  position  he  occupies  in  the 
church,  and  the  esteem,  in  which  he  is  held  by  the  multitudes  who  have 
been  edified  by  his  labors. 

As  he  is  yet  in  his  prime,  being  but  forty-eight  years  of  age.  it  is 
reasonable  to  hope  that  his  highest  period  of   usefulness  is  before   him. 


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THOMAS  1.  COULTAS,  CLASS  OF  1875. 

Rev.  Thomas  I.  Coultas.  B.  A..  M.  A..  D.  D..  was  born  of  English 
parentage  in  Scott  county.  Illinois,  in  1853.  He  was  left  fatherless 
when  six  years  of  age  :  attended  country  schools  until  fourteen  years 
old.  when  he  entered  the  Winchester  high  school  and  completed  its 
course  in  two  years.  When  sixteen  he  was  licensed  to  preach  and  was 
for  many  years  known  as  the  boy  preacher.  In  1869  he  was  admitted 
to   the    iliinois  Conference  and  for  two  years  performed  the  work  of  an 

itinerant  minister.  He  entered  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University  in  the 
fall  of  1871.  and  was  graduated  in 
June.  1875.  He  represented  the 
university  in  the  State  and  Inter- 
State  oratorical  contests,  taking  the 
first  prize  in  both.  He  returned  to 
the  pastorate  in  the  Illinois  Confer- 
ence and  immediately  took  high 
rank  as  a  minister  and  served  its 
best  charges  at  Quincy.  Danville 
and  Decatur.  In  1889  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Centenary  Church. 
Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  where  he  was 
most  successful  in  the  administration 
of  the  affairs  of  that  great  church 
of  nearly  fifteen  hundred  members. 
His  next  appointment  was  to  the 
THOMAS  I.  COULTAS.  Roberls  Park  Church  of  the  city  of 

Indianapolis,  where  he  is  serving 
with  great  acceptability.  In  the  rummer  cf  1894  he  traveled  in  Europe. 
Dr.  Coultas  is  a  natural  orator,  a  logical  thinker,  a  sympathetic  pastor, 


an  affable  courteous  gentleman,  and  a  deeply  spiritual  Christian. 

His  pulpit  efforts  manifest  careful  preparation  as  to  thought  and 
form;  sometimes  very  pathetic,  rarely  witty,  while  in  delivery  he  is  easy, 
natural,  graceful  and  vigorous.  He  is  clear  and  concise  in  style,  and 
always  impresses  the  hearer  with  his  own  sincerity  and  earnestness. 

In  the  fall  of  1879  he  married  Miss  Angle  Morrison,  a  student  of  the 
university,  who  from  the  maternal  side  is  a  relative  of  Clinton  W. 
Sears,  whose  connection  with  the  university  was  so  honorable  and  of 
pleasant  recollection  to  those  who  knew  him.  Unto  this  union  three 
children  have  been  born. 

FRANK    GUMMING.  CLASS  OF    1875. 

Rev.  Frank  Cummin?.  B.  A..  M.  A..  Ph.  D..  is  serving  his  first 
term  as  trustee  of  the  university,  but  has  many  times  represented  his 
conference  as  visitor.  An  alumnus  of  the  instiiution  of  the  class  of  1 875, 
he  united  with  the  Central  Illinois  conference  and  has  achieved  the 
distinction  of  being  one  of  its  ablest  preachers.  He  has  visited  Europe, 
giving  special  study  to  historic  Methodism  in  England  and   Ireland. 

Whi  e  in  college  he  was  an  earnest  student,  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Belles  Lettres  literary  society  and  contributed  largely  toward 
making  the  society  a  most  valuable  interest  to  students  of  the  univer- 
sity, not  only  by  his  literary  zeal,  but  also  by  his  rare  musical  talent. 
No  student  of  the  university  from  1870  to  1875  has  forgotten  the  leader 
of  the  Belles  Lettres  glee  club.  Mr.  Cumming  has  frequently  contrib- 
uted of  his  means,  and  in  1894  was  chiefly  instrumental  in  securing  a 
select  library  for  the  departments  of  Greek  and  Latin. 

He  was  elected  trustee  in  1873.  and  is  energetic,  conservatively 
progressive,  and  truly  loyal,  watching  every  interest  of  the  university 
and  losing  no  opportunity  to  extend  its  influence  and  render  it  more 
potent,  especially  in  the  bounds  of  tne  Central  Illinois  conference. 


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Samuel  V/an  Pelt. 

Class  of  irts. 

Rev.  Samuel  Van  Pelt,  B.  A..  M.  A.,  D.  D., 
is  now  serving  his  second  term  as  trustee  of 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  and  has  for 
many  years  represented  his  conference  as 
visitor  to  the  institution.  He  is  the  son  of  a 
Methodist  minister,  and  entered  the  prepara- 
tory school  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity from  Normal  and  graduated  from  the 
college  in  the  classical  course  in  1 875.  After- 
wards he  studied  in  the  School  of  Theology 
at  Boston,  Mass.,  and  then  united  with  the 
Central  Illinois  Conference,  in  which  for  sev- 
eral years  he  has  been  a  most  prominent 
member.  In  1890,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  Grand  Prairie  Seminary,  which  posi- 
tion he  still  holds.  It  is  no  disparagement 
to  any  who  have  preceded  him  to  say  that 
the  Sem.inary  has  never  been  so  popular,  so 
efficient,  and  so  commanding  in  its  influence 
as  under  his  administration. 

In  personal  appearance  he  is  dignified  and 
exceedingly  pleasant  in  manner.  Early  in 
his  college  course  he  manifested  fine  oratori- 
cal ability,  and  gave  special  attention  to  voice 
culture,  in  which  he  excelled,  under  that 
great  teacher  of  elocution,  S.  S.  Hamill. 
Without  destroying  his  own   individuality,  he 


acquired  the  best  forns  of  exoression  exhibited  by   his 


Samuel  Van   Pelt. 


teacher,  and  excels  in  teaching  the  art  and 
science  of  human  speech.  As  a  trustee,  he 
guards  carefully  the  interest  and  honor  of  the 
university.  He  is  a  delegate  elect  to  the 
next  General  Conference,  having  received  a 
very  large  majority  vote  of  his  Conference. 
He  has  a  brother.  Dr.  John  R..  of  Denver 
University,  and  a  sister.  Mrs.  Mary  L.  Dupuy. 
of  the  class  of  1880,  who  are  also  numbered 
among  our  graduates. 

THOMAS    STERLING.  CLASS    OF    1875. 

Thomas  M.  Sterling  was  born  in  1851  in 
Fairfield  county.  Ohio,  and  came  with  his 
father,  Charles  S.  Sterling,  to  McLean  coun- 
ty, Illinois,  in  1854,  where  he  resided  until 
he  completed  his  collegiate  course  of  study. 
He  had  all  the  advantages  of  a  young  man 
raised  on  a  farm  in  McLean  county,  and  at 
the  age  of  eighteen  entered  the  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan preparatory  school.  Having  completed 
its  course  of  study,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
college,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1875,  having  taught  school,  however,  more 
or  less  during  this  time.  In  1876-7.  he  was 
principal  of  the  school  at  Bement,  Illinois. 
Having  studied  law  in  the  cffice  of  Hay. 
Greene  and  Littler,  of  Springfield,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  June,  1878,  and  imme- 
diately began  the  practice  of  law  in  Spring- 


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field.  Illinois,  where  he  remained  for  four  years,  duiing  which  time  he 
served  as  State's  attorney  for  one  term.  In  1882.  he  moved  to  Spink 
county,  Dakota  mow  S.  Dakota),  where  he  has  since  resided,  pursuing 
his  chosen  profession,  and  has  ga'ned  prominence  as  a  lawyer  and  in 

politics.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
State  constitutional  convention  of 
Dakota  in  1883.  and  again  of  the 
constitutional  convention  of  S.  Da- 
kota in  1889,  and  a  member  of  the 
first  State  Senate  in  1889.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Commit- 
V^**       JL  tee  of  the  convention  of   1889,  and 

^^  occupied  the  same  position  in  the 

^^L        'M^^^  first    State  Senate ;  hence    he   has 

^^^^^^^^1^^^^^^         had  much  to  do  with  both  the  forma- 
^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^  and  interpretation       the 

^^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^B  laws        the  new  State. 

^^^^^^^L  ^^^^^f         He  held  the  attor- 

^^^^BBM^n^^^  ney  of  Spink  county  for   one   term, 

'  and  has  been  identified  more  or  less 

with  educational  matters  all  his  life. 
He  exerted  his  influence  in  support- 
ing the  excellent  school  system  of 
his  State,  and  for  years  has  been 
prominent  in  the  management  of  the  Red  Field  College,  at  Redfield, 
where  he  lives. 

In  1877.  he  was  married  to  Miss  Anna  Dunn,  who  died  in  1881. 
leaving  one  child.  Cloyd  D.  In  1882,  Mr.  Sterling  was  married  to  Miss 
Emma  L.  Thayer,  of  Mitchell.  S.  Dakota. 

Mr.  Sterling  was  a  painstaking,  industrious  student,  who  was  never 


THOMAS    STERLING. 


satisfied  until  he  knew  as  much  about  his  subjects,  a'  least,  as  any  one 
of  the  class;  hence  his  scholarship  is  not  only  extensive,  but  accurate. 
He  was  a  young  man  of  strong  convictions,  of  good  judgment,  and  of  a 
lofty  ambition,  and  it  is  no  surprise  to  those  who  knew  him  in  those 
days  to  learn  that  he  has  been  so  influential  in  founding  the  new  State 
of  South  Dakota. 

JAMES    OLIVER    WILSON,  CLASS    OF    1876. 

Rev.  James  Oliver  Wilson.  B.  A.,  B.  D..  M.  A..  D.  D.,  pastor  of 
Simpson  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  in 
1849  at  Manchester,  Illinois.  He  prepared  for  college  in  the  North- 
western University  preparatory  school,  and  entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University  in  1872.  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1876.  Early  in  his 
college  course  he  manifested  talent  as  an  elocutionist,  and  under  the 
superior  instruction  of  Prof.  S,  S.  Haiiill,  at  that  time  Professor  of  Elo- 
cution in  the  university,  he  made  rapid  development,  and  in  1873,  Prof, 
Hamill  having  resigned,  was  elected  instructor  in  elocution,  which  posi- 
tion he  retained  until  he  was  graduated  in  1876.  In  the  fall  of  1876, 
he  entered  Drew  Theological  Seminary,  and  was  elected  professor  of 
elocution  and  oratory,  which  position  he  held  during  his  Seminary  course. 
After  receiving  his  degree  from  Drew,  he  entered  the  ministry  and 
joined  the  Philadelphia  Conference,  in  which  he  soon  rose  to  promi- 
nence as  a  pulpit  orator  and  successful  pastor.  His  record  in  that  Con- 
ference, in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  is  an  honorable  one.  In  1891,  he 
was  transferred  to  the  Simpson  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Brook- 
lyn, New  York. 

Dr.  V/ilson  did  not  rest  on  his  past  record,  though  suc;essful  and 
brilliant,  but  here  he  has  been  in  labors  abundant,  and  has  met  with 
phenomenal  success  as  a  church  financier,  and  has  added  still  greater 
fame  to  his  ability  and  power  as  a  preacher  of  the  Word. 


James  Oliver   Wilson. 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH    AND    ALUMNI    RECORD. 


Personally,  another  has  correctly  described  him  :  •■  Blessed  with  an 
attractive  presence,  has  fascinating  manners,  a  strong,  full  voice,  a  re- 
fined and  cultivated  imagination,  splendid  descriptive  powers,  a  style 
bright  and  sparkling,  and  a  pathos  and  strength  seldom  possessed  *     * 

*  ♦  He  is  master  of  sarcasm.  *  *  is  not  less 
known  on  the  lecture  platform,  where  his  keen  sense  of  humor,  his 
dramatic  ability,  his  word  paintin?  and  thrilling  eloquence  have  won  for 
him  an  enviable  reputation." 

ROBERT     M'CAY,    CLASS    OF     1877. 

Robert  McCay.  A.  B..  A.  M., 
superintendent  schools  Blue  Island, 
Illinois,  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  and 
attended  the  public  schools  until  suf- 
ficiently advanced  to  enter  the 
preparatory  school  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University  in  1868.  Here 
he  prepared  for  college  and  was 
graduated  in  the  classical  course  in 
1877.  He  was  for  six  years  super- 
intendent of  schools  at  Washington, 
Illinois.  In  1882-83  he  was  super- 
intendent of  schools  at  Fairbury, 
Having  established  a  reputation  as  a 
teacher  and  disciplinarian  by  his 
brilliant  success  at  Washington,  in 
1883  he  was  elected  principal  of 
the  preparatory  school  of  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University,  and  professor 
of  elocution.  Here  he  manifested  the  characteristics  of  a  torn  teacher 
and  met  with  the  success  his  former  record  prophesied. 


ROBERT    M  CAY. 


His  ability  as  a  teacher  had  brought  him  into  such  eminence  that 
flattering  offers  were  soon  made  him  and  called  him  away  from  the 
Wesleyan.  From  1885  to  1889,  he  was  principal  of  the  high  school  at 
Elgin,  Illinois.  During  all  these  years  he  was  in  great  deniand  as  a 
teacher  in  tha  best  institutes  of  the  counties  of  his  state,  being  especially 
skillful  in  this  kind  of  work.  In  1889,  he  accepted  a  position  as  super- 
intendent of  city  schools  at  Burlington,  Iowa,  where  he  remained  for 
three  years,  annually  advancing  the  interests  of  the  schools  of  the  city, 
This  position  he  resigned  to  accept  the  superintendency  of  the  schools 
of  Blue  Island.  Illinois,  where  he  sustained  himself  as  one  of  the  most 
efficient  and  influential  public  school  men  of  the  state  of  Illinois. 

He  is  also  editor  of  the  Inter-State  School  Review.  As  a  student, 
Mr.  McCay  was  patient  enough  to  be  accurate  and  thorough.  He 
spared  no  time  nor  pains  nor  energy  in  learning  something  of  almost 
everything  and  everything  of  something.  He  is  suave  in  manner  and 
resolute  in  deed,  and  in  every  way  an  honor  to  his  Alma  IVlater. 

WILLIAM    EDDY    BARNES.    CLASS    OF     1872. 

In  June.  1872,  the  commencement  exercises  were  held  for  the 
first  tim°  in  Amie  Chapel.  They  were  rendered  still  more  interesting 
from  the  circumstance  that  Francis  E.  Munssll,  the  son  of  President 
Munsell,  and  William  Eddy  Barnes,  son  of  Dr.  R.  M.  Barnes,  at  that 
time  pastor  of  the  First  Church,  were  graduated. 

Mr.  Barnes  had  been  well  prepared  for  college  in  the  high  schools 
and  was  a  brilliant  student,  especially  in  literature,  in  which  he  ex- 
celled. After  graduation  he  entered  the  field  of  journalism  at  Decatur, 
Il'inois.  and  after  a  short  time,  he  was  elected  assistant  edito'  of  the 
Central  Christian  Advocate,  which  was  so  ably  edited  under  the  in- 
spiration and  direction  of  Benjamin  St.  James  Fry.  He  remained 
with   the   Advocate   but  a  few  years,   when    he  became   manager  and 


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few 


''   Sv>-?1."  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  to  which   publication 

he  continues  to  give 
his  energies. 

In  personal  appear- 
ance. Mr.  Barnes  is  tall 
and  prepossessing,  bright 
and  pleasing  in  conver- 
sation, and  always  per- 
fectly self-possessed. 

Soon  after  graduation 
he  marrried  Miss  Roe. 
a  beautiful  and  womanly 
young  woman,  who  had 
been  brought  up  in  the 
family  cf  Edwin  C.  Hyde 
and  who  will  be  favora- 
bly remembered  by  very 
many  graduates. 

She  was  permitted  to 
grace  and  make  happy 
an  earthly  home  but  a 
years,  having  been  cut  down  in  the  bloom  of  womanhood. 

CHARLES    V/.    SUPER,   CLASS  OF     1874.       GRADUATE    DEPARTMENT. 


WILLlAivi     ED^r    BA.^NE. 


Charles  W.  Super,  B.  A.,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  President  of  the  Ohio 
University.  Athens,  Ohio,  was  born  in  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania.  1842, 
of  American-German  parentage.  German  was  his  first  language,  in 
youth  he  had  better  opportunities  than  were  afforded  most  boys  of  his 
day,  and  tradition  points  to  a  wise  use  of  those  opportunities. 

He  studied  i.i  the  private  schools  of  his  town  and  prepared  for  col- 


lege at  the  Unic  Seminary.  New  Berlin,  Pennsylvania.  He  entered 
the  Sophomore  class  on  examination  at  Dickinson  College  in  1863  and 
was  graduated  in  1866.  While  compelled  to  earn  money  for  his  own 
education,  he  prosecuted  his  study  with  untiring  zeal,  and  both  before 
and  after  entering  college  devoted  much  attention  to  subjects  not  in  the 
collegiate  course,  such  as  Hebrew.  Spanish,  stenography,  and  music. 
He  was  an  omnivorous  reader,  and  paid  special  attention  to  rhetoric  and 
English  literature.  He  taught  in  public  and  private  schools  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, Ohio  and  Delaware.  He  spent  nearly  two  years  in  study  in  Ger- 
many, making  a  specialty  of  Greek  and  Latin,  paying  attention,  more 
or  less,  to  Hebrew,  Arabic,  Sanskrit  and  Old  German.  In  1872  he 
taught  in  Cincinnati  Wesleyan  College,  where  he  remained  until  1878, 
when  he  began  the  study  of  law,  which  he  pursued  during  the  years  of  1 878 
and  1879,  hen  he  was  elected  to  the  professorship  of  Greek  in  the  Ohio 
University;  but  previous  to  this  time  he  had  begun  the  post-graduate 
study  in  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University,  from  which  he  earned  his 
degree  of  Pn.  D.  in  1864.  In  1882  he  traveled  again  in  Europe  for 
study.  In  1883  he  was  made  acting  president  of  the  Ohio  University, 
and  was  elected  president  in  1884. 

In  this  office.  Dr.  Super  has  justly  earned  the  distinction  of  being 
a  thorough  scholar  and  one  of  the  foremost  educators  of  our  country. 

He  has  written  extensively  for  the  best  periodicals  and  magazines, 
and  has  published  several  monD3riphs:  A  translation  of  Weil's  Order  of 
Words,  and  the  History  of  the  German  Language.  He  has  prepared 
an  annotated  edition  of  Herodotus  on  the  Antiquities  of  Egypt,  which 
has  not  been  published.  He  also  aided  in  preparing  an  ancient  history, 
having  read  the  German  and  French  authorities.  In  June.  1894.  the 
degree  of  LL.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Dickinson  College. 

President  Super  is  remembered  as  one  of  the  first  men  who  took 
his  examination  for  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  at  this  university. 


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CALVIN  RAYBURN.  CLASS  OF  1876. 

in  the  Buckeye  State  in  1847.  there  was  born  of  a  good  Presby- 
terian family  Calvin  Rayburn,  who  has  taken  successively  the  degrees 
of  B.  S..  M.  S.,  and  LL.  B.  from  the  university,  and  who  is  now  the 
efficient  secretary  of  its  board  of  trustees.     Early  in  Calvin's  life  his 

parents  came  to  Illinois  and 
settled  near  Towanda.  Mc- 
Lean county,  and  began  the 
education  of  the  son  under  a 
private  teacher.  Later  he  was 
placed  in  the  Bloomington 
public  school,  and  in  1868  he 
entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1876. 

During  his  college  course 
Mr.  Rayburn  was  a  diligent 
and  earnest  student,  and,  like 
few  others,  took  an  interest 
not  only  in  college  life  and  af- 
fairs, but  also  in  the  actual 
world  outside  the  university. 
He  was  an  ardent  and  able 
member  of  the  old  Belles  Let- 
tres  literary  society.  After 
graduation  he  taught  school  for  three  years,  two  as  principal  of  the  high 
school  at  Shelbyville,  and  one  as  principal  at  Hillsboro,  Illinois.  His 
heart,  however,  had  been  fixed  on  ths  legal  profession,  and  under  the 
direction  of  Rowell  and  Hamilton  he  entered  the  law  department  of  the 
university,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.     Having  been 


CALVIN  RAYBURN. 


admitted  to  the  bar.  he  began  the  practice  of  law  in  the  city  of  his  edu- 
cation, where  he  has  since  residsd  and  received  a  fair  share  of  the  prac- 
tice in  this  honorable  profession. 

Since  June,  1889,  he  was  held  the  responsible  position  of  secretary 
of  the  board  of  trustees.  To  the  duties  of  this  office  he  has  brought 
accurate  and  careful  business  methods  and  loyal  devotion  to  his  alma 
mater.  The  responsibilities  of  the  office  are  great  and  onerous,  but  Mr. 
Rayburn  is  fully  equal  to  the  one,  and  discharges  the  other  with  precision, 
practically  without  compensation. 

GEORGE  L.  HUTCHIN,  CLASS  OF  1876. 

Of  the  class  of  1876  more  than  one  have  been  successful  above 
the  average  graduate,  and  some 
have  become  eminent  in  their  pro 
fessions,  notably  Wilson,  Evans. 
Marquis,  Kuhl,  and  not  the  leas; 
among  them,  George  L.  Hutchin, 
B.  S.,  the  editor  and  proprietor  of 
the  Sunday  Eye.  He  is  a  n?itive  o.' 
Illinois,  and  entered  the  preparatory 
schoolof  the  university  from  Kenney 
and  carefully  prepared  for  college, 
sparing  neither  time  nor  pains,  thus 
avoiding  the  greatest  difficulties  in 
the  way  of  mastering  the  college 
studies  by  thorough  and  adequate 
preparation.  He  seems  then  to 
have  acted  upon  the  principle, 
which  is  now  characteristic  of  him  ceorge  l.  hutchin. 

■ — the  oversight  of  which  is  often  fatal  notwithstanding  g  eit  energy  and 


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industry    -that  thorough  preparation  is  the  work  already  half  completed. 
He  graduated  with  honor  in  1876. 

While  in  college  he  took  a  hand  often  in  college  politics  and  had  a 
sharp  eye  for  what  was  going  on  in  the  college  world;  he  also  showed 
a  predelection  for  journalism,  which  was  rapidly  developed  after  his 
graduation.  In  1880  he  became  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Sunday 
Eye,  an  illustrated  weekly  paper  of  wide  circulation,  which  was  founded 
by  Holland  R.  Persinger  in  1878.  Mr.  Hutchin  is  a  man  of  good  pres- 
ence, has  a  keen  appreciation  of  wit,  wields  a  facile  and  trenchant  pen, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the  Alumni  Association. 

R.   B.   WELCH,  CLASS  OF    1877. 

Hon.  R.  B.  Welch,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  De 
Kalb  county,  Indiana,  in  1850.  In  1864  he  removed  with  his  parents 
to  Piatt  county,  Illinois.  Until  seventeen  years  old  he  had  only  such 
educational  advantages  as  the  country  school  of  that  time  afforded.  In 
the  fall  of  1857  he  entered  an  academy  near  Farmer  City,  Illinois, 
taught  by  P.  V.  C.  Pool.  In  the  spring  of  1870  he  entered  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University.  He  was  twice  president  of  the  Belles  Lettres 
Society,  and  in  1876  represented  the  university  at  the  inter-collegiate 
contest  at  Evanston.  In  1871,  he  and  Professor  Potter  published  a 
work  on  the  Word  Method  of  Addition  which  reached  a  considerable 
sale.  He  was  principal  of  schools  of  Abingdon,  Illinois,  one  year,  and 
held  the  same  position  at  Washington,  Illinois,  for  two  years,  re-entering 
the  university  in  the  fall  of  1875  and  graduating  with  the  class  of  1877, 
He  held  the  position  of  superintendent  of  schools  at  Pontiac,  Illinois, 
from  1877  to  1879,  during  which  time  he  read  the  course  of  law  as 
prescribed  by  the  university.  In  the  spring  of  1879  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  State  Normal  School  of  Kansas.  Under  his  wise  man- 
agement the  school  began  a  growth  which  has  continued  until  it  is  one 


of  the  largest  State  normal  schools  in  the  United  States.  The  institu- 
tion still  retains  the  general  characteristics  given  it  at  its  re-organization 
under  Mr.  Welch,  In  1882  he  resigned  the  presidency  and  removed  to 
Topeka,  where  he  is  still  practicing  his  profession.  At  that  time  the 
liquor  power  was  in  full  control  in  Topeka,  and  although  the  prohibitory 
law  was  enacted  in  1881,  some  seventy  saloons  were  in  full  operation 
and  had  the  moral  support  of  the  majority  of  the  people.  A  fight  was 
soon  organized  and  Mr.  Welch  entered  into  it  with  his  usual  vigor,  as  a 
deputy  county  attorney.    An  effort  was  made  to  drive  him  from  the  city. 

and  on  the  night  of  August  19.  1882. 
the  saloon  element  hired  miscreants 
to  go  to  his  stable  and  trim  his  horse's 
tail  and  mane  and  cut  up  his  harness 
and  family  carriage.  This  act  sealed 
the  doom  of  the  liquor  element  of 
Topeka.  Mr.  Welch  called  a  mass 
meeting  in  the  city  park  and  caused 
the  horse,  harness  and  carriage  to 
be  exhibited  to  thousands  of  people 
and  made  a  bold,  considerate  speech 
which  made  a  deep  impression 
upon  public  sentiment.  Mr.  Welch 
spent  two  years  and  all  he  had  and 
all  he  could  borrow  fighting  the  sa- 
loon power  until  they  finally  closed 
in  January,  1885.  He  then  resumed 
the  general  law  practice  and  in  a  few 
R   B  WELCH  years  was   in   comfortable  circum- 

stances.     In   1888    he  was   elected 
county  attorney  of  Shawnee  county  and  served  two  terms.     In   1890. 


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after  the  decision  of  Liesy  vs.  Hardin,  135  U.  S.,  100.  numerous  orig- 
nal  package  houses  for  the  sale  of  intoxicants  were  opened.  Mr.  Welch. 
with  Hon.  L.  B.  Kellogg,  attorney  general  for  Kansas,  made  the  fight 
against  the  liquor  invasion.  The  United  States  circuit  court  for  tie 
district  of  Kansas  decided  all  cases  against  the  State  authoiities  and  at 
one  time  there  were  twenty-one  suits  pending  against  Mr.  Welch  as 
county  attorney  and  John  M.  Wilkerson  as  sheriff  of  Shawnee  county. 
enjoining  them  from  further  proceedings  against  the  original  package 
men  and  sueing  them  for  damages  aggregating  over  one  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars.  In  re  Raher.  149  U.  S  .  545.  Mr.  Welch  prosecuted  an 
habeas  corpus  case  to  the  United  States  supreme  court,  winning  a  vic- 
tory that  settled  the  rights  of  the  State  authorities  under  the  Wilson 
bill  for  all  time.  During  the  legislative  trouble  in  1893  the  volunteer 
force  of  sergeants-at-arms  and  the  legislature  joined  in  requesting  him 
to  take  command  of  the  forces  resisting  the  Populist  governor's  attempt 
to  coerc3  the  house  of  representatives  with  the  State  militia.  Mr. 
Welch  accepted  and  held  command  until  the  Populists  surrendered  and 
submitted  the  differences  to  the  courts.  The  legislature  passed  very 
complimentary  resolutions  and  had  them  engrossed  and  framed  and 
presented  them  to  Mr.  Welch.  August  I.  1894,  he  was  elected  to  his 
eighth  term  as  president  of  the  board  of  education  of  the  city  of  Topeka. 
He  is  a  strong  athletic  man  of  untiring  industry.  As  an  advocate 
he  stands  at  the  very  front  rank.  He  was  elected  by  the  Kansas  State 
Bar  Association  as  one  of  their  representatives  to  the  American  Bar 
Association,  which  met  at  Saratoga.  New  York.  August  22-24.  1894. 

J.   H.   MONTGOMERY.  CLASS    OF    1888,  GRADUATE  DEPARTMENT. 

J.  H.  Montgomery,  B.  A..  M.  A..  Ph.  D.,  professor  of  physics  and 
chemistry  in  Allegheny  College,  received  his  Doctor's  degree  in  1888. 
He  has  taught  in  Allegheny  College,  his  alma  mater,  since  his  graduation. 


JOSEPH  H.  KETRON,  CLASS  OF  1876. 

Joseph  H.  Ketron,  B.  A..  M.  A.,  completed  his  studies  in  the  uni- 
versity in  June,  1876,  and  received 
the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  hav- 
ing taken  the  full  classical  course  ; 
he  took  the  Master's  degree  in  1879. 
Mr.  Ketron  has  devoted  his  life  to 
the  work  of  Christian  education. 
For  some  time  he  was  professor  of 
mathematics  in  the  Holston  Semi- 
nary, Ne>v  Market,  Tennessee,  but 
was  called  to  the  presidency  of 
Kingsley  Seminary.  Bloomington, 
Tennessee,  at  the  time  of  its  organ- 
izalicn  in  1877.  This  positi:n  he 
fills  with  marked  ability  both  as  an 
executive  officer  and  teacher.  The 
very  fact  of  holding  the  office  of 
presidentof  such  aschool  for  eighteen 
years  in  these  times  of  unrest  and 
reformation  of  methods  in  the  most 
of  schools  is  sufficient  evidence  of 
real  worth  as  an  educator  and  strength  of  character  personally. 

He  was  honored  by  the  members  of  the  Holston  lay  electoral  con- 
ference by  an  election  to  the  General  Conference  of  1884.  He  proved 
an  intelligent  and  efficient  member  of  that  great  law-making  body, 
serving  on  the  Missionary,  Temporal  Economy,  and  Church  Extension 
Committees.  He  is  unobtrusive  and  yet  a  man  of  convictions  as  opposed 
to  opinions  and  is  resolute  in  deed  ;  thoroughly  conscientious  as  an  offi- 
cial and  teacher,  never  forgetting  his  relation  as  an  individual  in  society. 


JOSEPH    H.    KETRON. 


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MARQUIS    D.   HORNBEC;,   CLASS  OF    1877. 

Rev.  Marquis  D.  Hornbeck.  A.  B.,  A.  M.,  Ph.  D..  was  born  in  Pick- 
away couity,  Ohio,  in  1849,  and  moved  with  his  parens  to  Sulby 
cointy.  Illinois,  in  1853,  and  there  u Don  a  farm  were  laid  the  foundations 

for  a  robust  pliysical  manhood. 

He  entered  the  preparatory  school 
of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University 
in  January,  1871,  and  was  prad  lated 
from  the  college  in  June,  1877,  hav- 
ing taken  the  full  class'cal  course. 
Having  been  licensed  to  preach,  he 
served  as  a  s'udent  pastor  near 
Heyworth  and  Warrensburg  during 
this  period.  He  united  with  the  Il- 
linois Annual  Conference  in  the  fall 
of  1877,  and  served  as  paster  in 
charge  at  Griggs  Chapel  until  in  the 
fill  of  1881.  when  he  entered  the 
Boston  School  of  Theology,  from 
which  he  received  the  degree  of 
S.  T.  B.  in  1884.  Upon  his  return 
from  Boston  he  was  elected  princi- 
MARQUis  D.   HORNBECK.  pal  of  the  Danvllle  Sem inary ,  which 

at  that  time  was  an  affiliated  school 
of  the  university.  In  1887  he  was  called  from  the  principalship  of  the 
Seminary  to  the  presidency  of  Chaddock  College,  Quincy,  Illinois, 
which  position  he  occupied  until  1890,  when  he  returned  to  the  pastorate. 
He  has  served  most  acceptably  the  churches  of  Winchester  and 
Urbana  in  the  Illinois  Conference,  Cannon  City,  Colorado  Conference, 
and  is  now  the  efficient  pastor  of   the  Broadway  church  in  Pueblo,  Col. 


While  in  the  educational  work  he  gained  some  reputation  as  an 
educator  and  scholar.  He  read  a  paper  before  the  college  section  of 
t.ie  Ni;i3Tal  Edacational  Association  at  St.  Paul.  Minn.,  in  1890,  sub- 
ject, ••  Tiie  Relation  of  the  College  to  the  Morals  of  the  Students."  He 
has  a'so  read  papers  from  time  to  time  before  the  Central  Teacherr' 
Association  of  Illinois,  and  other  educational  bodies. 

Upon  examination  in  Metaphysics  and  Theism,  he  received,  in 
June,  1894.  the  Ph.  D.  degree  from  the  University  of  Denver.  His 
name  appears  in  the  catalogue  of  the  Iliff  School  of  Theology  as  lec- 
turer on  Missions. 

Mr.  Hornbeck  married  Miss  Lydia  M.  Kuhl,  of  Beardstown.  Illi- 
nois a  graduate  of  the  Wesleyan.  an  instructor  in  Latin  and  German  at 
the  Illinois  Female  College,  September  1st.  1881.  who  has  contributed 
largely  to  the  success  of  her  husband. 

SAMUEL    MILLER    WARE,  CLASS  OF    1879. 

Rev.  Samuel  Miller  Ware,  A.  B.,  A.  M.,  D.  D..  a  nephew  of 
Justice  Samuel  F.  Miller,  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  entered 
the  university  from  the  public  schools  of  Towanda,  Illinois,  in  1874.  hav- 
ing taught  during  the  years  1872-3  in  the  public  schools  of  the  county, 
and  graduated  from  the  classical  course  in  1879.  During  his  college 
career  Mr,  Ware  manifested  a  high  order  of  intellectual  ability,  and 
represented  his  class  as  orator;  1879  to  1881  he  was  principal  of  the 
high  school  at  Towanda,  Illinois,  where  he  made  for  himself  a  fine  rec- 
ord as  a  teacher  as  well  as  a  scholar.  In  1881  he  entered  the  Western 
Theological  Seminary  at  Allegheny.  Pennsylvania,  completing  his  theo- 
logical studies  in  the  McCormick  Theological  Seminary,  at  Chicago,  in 
1 884.  At  this  time  he  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  the  Ferguson 
Presbyterian  church  in  a  suburb  of  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  most  suc- 
cessful until  June,  1887,  when  his  character  and  abilities  were  recognized 


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by  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  Clinton.  Missouri,  where  he  began  a 
most  remarkable  pastorate  of  three  years,  which  he  resigned  to  accept 
a  call  to  the  Second  Presbyterian  church.  Omaha.  Nebraska,  where  he 
began  his  labors  July  1st.  1890.  Here  Mr.  Ware  continues  lo  mani- 
fest those  admirable  traits  of  char- 
a:ter  in  the  pulpit  and  pastorate 
which  make  him  one  of  the  strongest 
men  in  the  pulpit  of  Omaha  and  in 
the  Presbyterian  church  of  the 
West.  He  was  quite  influential  in 
organizing  the  Presbyterian  Theo- 
logical Seminary  of  Omaha  in  1 89 1 , 
and  is  now  chairman  of  its  finance 
committee  ;  he  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Omaha,  a  member  of  its 
executive  committee  and  secretary 
of  the  board. 

July  20.  1880.  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Blazer,  of  Macomb.  Illinois,  to 
whom  have  been  born  six  c'lildren. 
Mr.  Ware  has  been  interested  in 
educational  and  charitable  and  re- 
ligious work  since  the  time  of  his 
graduation,  and  is  one  of  those  broad  minded,  liberal  hearted,  public 
spirited  citizens  desired  in  every  community.  As  a  preacher,  he  is  both 
intelligent  and  spiritual ;  as  a  pastor,  kind,  sympathetic  and  successful. 
He  exerts  a  controlling  influence  in  affairs  local,  and  is  looked  upon  as 
one  of  the  coming  leaders  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  he  is  a 
loyal  son. 


SAMUEL    MILLER    WARE. 


JOSEPH    F.    m'nAUGHT.  CLASS  OF    1877. 

Joseph  F.  McNaught.  B.  S..  M.  S..  was  born  of  that  excellent  an- 
cestry, Scotch-Irish,  near  Lexington.  McLean  county,  Illinois,  in  1855. 
At  the  age  of  eighteen,  having  prepared  for  college  in  high  school,  he 

entered  the  university  as  freshman 
and  was  graduated  in  1877.  He 
then  entered  the  law  school  of  the 
University  of  Michigan  and  com- 
pleted its  course  of  study.  Having 
been  admitted  to  practice  at  the  bar, 
he  went  to  Seattle.  Washington  and 
formed  a  partnership  with  an  older 
brother,  James,  who  also  spent  some 
years  in  the  university  and  had  pre- 
ceded him  to  the  Pacific  coast,  and 
at  that  time  even  commanded  a  fine 
practice.  In  1881.  E.  P.  Ferry, 
who  at  a  later  date  became  gover- 
nor of  the  State,  and  John  H. 
Mitchell,  son  of  Senator  Mitchell, 
joined  the  firm  of  McNaught  Bros. 
Though  the  youngest  member  of 
JOSEPH   p.   M'NAUGHT.  ^he  firm,  Mr.  McNaught  contributed 

his  full  share  to  the  immense  busi- 
ness done  by  them.  Happy  investments  in  real  estate  were  made  from 
his  earnings,  laying  the  foundations  for  wealth  which  required  his  entire 
time  for  development  ;  consequently  in  1888,  he  relinquished  in  part  his 
legal  practice  for  this  purpose.  He  has  evinced  rare  ability  as  an  organ- 
izer and  his  influence  has  been  a  potent  factor  in  the  development  of  the 
resources  of  the  Sound.  See  these  facts  and  more  in  The  History  of  Seattle. 


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RICHARD  W.  CREWS.  CLASS  OF    1879. 

Rev.  Richard  W.  Crews.  B.  A  .  M.  A.,  pastor  cf  the  F\'?\  Methodist 
Church.  Geneseo,  Illinois,  was  born  in  England;  prepared  for  college  in 
the  preparatory  school  of  the  Northwestern  University;  studied  also  in 

Garrett  Biblical  Institute;  entered 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  in 
1876,  and  was  graduated  in  1879. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  Central  Illi- 
nois Conference  on  trial  in  1876. 
since  which  time  he  has  maintained 
the  character  of  a  faithful  Christian 
minister,  and  has  served  some  of 
the  best  charges  of  his  conference. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  a 
member  of  the  joint  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University, 
and  has  displayed  the  qualities  of  a 
man  who  understands  the  needs  of 
Christian  education,  and  wisely  seeks 
to  proniote  the  best  interests  of  the 
college  projected  by  his  own  confer- 
ence. Mr.  Crews  is  a  tireless  stu- 
dent, and  has  more  than  ordinary 
powers  and  acquisition.  As  a 
preacher,  he  is  vigorous  in  thought  and  expression,  and  seeks  to  educate 
and  build  up  his  people  in  all  useful  knowledge.  As  a  pastor,  he  is  sys- 
tematic, discreet  and  faithful.  He  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  strongest 
men  in  the  Central  Illinois  Conference,  and  a  loyal  son  of  his  alma  mater 
who  never  fails  to  improve  an  opportunity  to  turn  the  attention  of  the 
young  people  of  his  charges  to  her  halls. 


RICHARD  W.  CREV/S. 


JOHN  A.    MOTTER.  CLASS  OF    1878. 

John  A.  Motter  was  three  years  old  when  his  parents  came  from 
Indiana  to  Bloomington  in  1853.  In  1871  he  was  married  to  Miss  Anna 
E.  Brown,  of  Normal.  Illinois,  and  settled  upon  a  farm,  in  Kansas.  He 
entered  the  Wesleyan  in  1874.  and  graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.  S. 
in  1878.  Immediately  after  graduation  he  joined  the  Kansas  Confer- 
ence, and  served  charges  at  Valley 
Falls,  Manhattan  and  Holton,  when 
he  was  appointed  to  Leavenworth 
(now  Kansas  City)  District  as  pre- 
siding elder.  Alter  remaining  four 
and  one-half  years  in  the  eldership 
he  was  appointed  to  Baldwin  church. 
This  gave  his  three  children  the  ac'- 
vsntages  cf  Baker  University.  Two 
are  new  classical  graduates  and  the 
third  is  now  a  freshman.  After  three 
and  one-half  years  Baldwin  was 
transferred  from  the  Kansas  Confer- 
ence to  the  South  Kansas  Confer- 
ence, and  Mr.  Motter  was  made 
presiding  eider  of  Atchison  District, 
and  is  now  in  his  third  year.  He 
was  elected  by  the  Kansas  Confer- 
ence a  trustee  of  Baker  University 
and  has  been  twice   re-elected  and 

is  now  in  his  third  year  as  treasurer  of  the  board.  He  was  the  first  presi- 
dent of  the  Methodist  Preachers'  Association  of  Missouri  and  Kansfs. 
With  an  invincible  will  and  a  lofty  purpose,  and  with  a  heart  open  to 
i  T.pressions  from  above,  he  is  now  in  the  midst  of  a  successful  career. 


JOHN  A.   MOTTER. 


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Harqaret  a.  Sudduth. 

Class  of  laso 


Since  that  day,  1870.  which  marl<s  an  epoch  in  the  administration 
of  the  affairs  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University — the  admission  of 
young  women  to  all  the  advantages  offered  young  men — many  bright 
and  intelligent  women  have  left  the  university  halls  to  enter  the  lists  in 
contention  for  mastery  in  the  highest  things.  Perhaps  few,  if  any.  have 
accomplished  more  or  wield  a  wider  and  more  potent  influence  for  good 
than  Margaret  A.  Sudduth,  B.  S.,  of  the  class  of  1880,  now  editor  of  the 
Union  Signal.  During  the  year  1880  she  was  assistant  principal  of  the 
high  school  at  D  wight.  Illinois,  and  in  the  fall  of  1881  she  entered 
Wellesley  College  for  a  teacher's  special  course  of  literature  and  history, 
where  she  remained  but  a  few  months,  being  compelled  to  give  up  study 
on  account  of  failing  eyesight.  Having  traveled  extensively  with  mem- 
bers of  her  family  in  the  South  and  West,  she  went  abroad  in  May, 
1886,  and  spent  fourteen  months  in  Europe,  traveling  through  England, 
Germany,  Austria.  Italy,  and  Switzerland,  making  special  study  of  the 
German  language. 

Interested  since  before  her  graduation  in  the  great  cause  of  tem- 
perance, she  spent  considerable  time  while  abroad  in  investigating  the 
cause  of  drunkenness  in  the  countries  visited,  and  as  a  special  corre- 
spondent to  Bloomington  papers  and  the  Union  Signal  she  displayed 
rare  literary  ability.  In  1887,  upon  her  return  to  America,  she  accepted 
the  editorship  of  the  Oak  and  Ivy  Leaf,  a  publication  projected  by 
Mary  Allen  West. 

"In  1890  her  name  first  appeared  as  an  editor  of  the  Union  Signal, 
to  which  her  services  had  been  rendered  from  the  time  of  her  arrival  in 
Chicago,  and  in  January,  1892,  she  assumed  the  managing  editorship, 
where  her  fine  journalistic  ability  and  cultured  mental  and  literary  qual- 


ifications are  called  into  requisition. 

"While  in  the  full  powers  of  mature  young  womanhood,  our  editor 
is  characterized  by  the  sound  judgment  and  high  sense  of  duty  of  an 
older  head.  Faithfulness  and  loyalty  to  the  cause  she  has  espoused,  a 
disregard  of  self-interest,  an  innate  strength  and  nobility  of  character 
are  her  chief  traits.  Her  keen  perception  of  the  cogent  phases  of  the 
temperance  reform,  as  mirrored  in  the  Union  Signal,  attests  the  wisdom 
of  the  choice  which  took  from  Oak  and  Ivy  Leaf  to  enrich  a  larger  por- 
tion of  the  great  Christian  temperance  vineyard." 

"  Among  the  young  women  whom  the  higher  education  and  wider 
openings  for  the  so-called  gentler  sex  have  recently  brought  to  the  front, 
the  subject  of  our  sketch  occupies  a  deservedly  prominent  position. 
It  may  safely  be  said  that  never  was  there  a  better  fitting  of  person  to 
profession  than  in  the  choice  of  Margaret  A.  Sudduth  for  her  various 
responsible  posts  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Woman's  Temperance  Pub- 
lishing Association  :  and  in  this  work  (always  a  labor  of  love  to  her)  she 
has  measured  up  to  the  full  stature  of  her  endowments  and  attainments." 

The  career  of  Miss  Sudduth  fully  justifies  these  strong  words  of 
■•J.  A.  S."  in  Oak  and  Ivy  Leaf.  July  1894. 

SAIN  WELTY,  CLASS  OF    1881. 

Sain  Welty,  B.  A..  M.  A.,  LL.  B.,  was  born  in  Ohio,  January  19. 
1853,  the  year  in  which  his  father,  Emanuel  Welty,  emigrated  to  Mar- 
shall county,  Illinois,  where  young  Welty  had  the  freedom  of  the  country 
from  the  time  of  his  childhood  until  he  entered  the  preparatory  school  of 
the  university  in  1872.  Here  he  prepared  for  college  with  greater  care 
than  is  the  case  with  most  students.  The  same  carefulness  and  pre- 
cision characterized  his  college  course,  to  which  he  gave  sufficient  time 
for  assimilation,  having  graduated  in  the  classical  course  in  1881. 

In  the  fall  of  1881  he  entered  the  law  school  at  Yale,  where  he  led 


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his  class  in  scholarship  and  in  recognition  thereof  was  awarded  the 
Marshal  Jewel  prize.  Returning  to  Bloomington  in  1883.  he  entered 
the  law  office  of  Fifer  and  Phillips,  gentlemen  well  known  to  the  gradu- 
ates of  sixty,  but  the  next  year  he  formed  a  partnership  with  John  A. 
Sterling,  also   of   the  class  of    1881.  with  whom   he  still  practices  law. 

From  1889  to  1892  Mr.  Welty 
was  attorney  for  the  city  of 
Bloomington,  the  duties  of 
which  office  were  conscien- 
tiously discharged.  Since 
1887  he  has  represented  the 
Alumni  Association  as  a 
member  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees, serving  most  faithfully  on- 
the  executive  committee  con- 
tinuously, and  for  several  years 
has  been  chairman  of  the 
standing  committee  on  build- 
ings and  grounds. 

As  a  lawyer.  Mr,  Welty  be- 
longs to  that  class  of  legal 
gentlemen  whose  manhood  is 
greater  than  the  profession  and 
is  never  sacrificed  for  the  sake 
of  a  temporary  victory;  his 
legal  knowledge  is  exact, 
broad  and  practical.  He  is  courteous  and  dignified  in  manner,  and  a 
devout  Christian.  He  married  Miss  Gertrude  Ball,  of  Marshall  county, 
and  of  this  union  there  is  one  child.  Bessie,  who  is  now  in  her  fourth 
year  in  the  preparatory  school. 


SAIN    WELTY. 


JOHN  A,   STERLING.  CLASS   OF    1881. 

John  A.  Sterling,  B.  A.,  M,  A,,  was  born  on  the  first  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1857,  on  a  farm  near  Le  Roy,  in  this  county.      He  lived  with  his 

parents  on  the  farm  until  he  was 
twenty-one  years  of  age  and  taught 
school  for  three  years  during  the 
winter  months.  He  graduated  from 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  in 
the  class  of  1881  in  the  classical 
course.  In  the  summer  of  1881  he 
was  elected  superintendent  of  the 
Lexington  high  school  and  occupied 
that  position  for  two  years. 

He  then  came  to  Bloomington 
and  entered  the  law  office  of  Fifer 
and  Phillips  as  a  student  of  law. 
He  was  admitted  by  examination 
before  the  supreme  court  to  prac- 
tice law,  in  November,  1884.  and 
immediately  upon  his  admission 
formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Sain 
Welty,  with  whom  he  is  still  con- 
nected in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. On  May  20,  1886,  he  was  married  to  Clara  M,  Irons,  He 
has  one  child.  Frank  Hugo  Sterling,  four  years  of  age. 

During  the  Harrison  and  Cleveland  campaign  of  1888  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  County  Republican  Central  Committee,  which  place  he  oc- 
cupied for  two  years.  He  was  nominated  by  the  Republicans  of  McLean 
c:iunty  in  1892  for  the  office  of  State's  Attorney,  and  was  successfully 
elected  to  that  office,  which  he  still  holds. 


JOHN  A.   STERLING. 


ILLINOIS    WESLEYAN    UNIVERSITY. 


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WILLIAM   XAVIER  SUDDUTH.  CLASS  OF    1 

William  Xavier  Sudduth.  of  Chicago,  son  of  the  late  Dr.  James 
McCreary  {M.  D..  Rush  Medical  College,  1855)  and  Amanda  E.  (Ash- 
more)  Sudduth,  grandson  of  Thomas  Sudduth,  was  born  January  18, 
1853,  at  Springfield,  Illinois.  He 
prepared  for  college  at  the  Illinois 
State  Normal  University,  Normal, 
Illinois;  was  graduated  Ph,  B., 
from  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity, Bloomington,  and  received 
therefrom  the  degree  of  A.  M.  in 
1889;  was  a  graduate  student  at 
the  University  of  Minnesota,  at 
Minneapolis,  1891:  commenced 
the  study  of  dentistry  in  1879, 
at  the  Philadelphia  Dental  Col- 
lege, and  after  graduating  D.  D. 
S.  therefrom  in  1881 ,  practiced  the 
profession  in  Bloomington,  Illinois, 
two  years.  He  began  to  read  medi- 
cine in  1883,  under  Drs.  James  B. 
Taylor  and  William  L.  Mittendorf, 
of  New  York  City  ;  attended  one 
course  of  lectures  each,  at  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City,  and  the  Medico- 
Chirurgical  College,  of  Philadelphia,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.  D.from 
the  latter  in  1885.  During  the  three  following  years  he  spent  a  portion 
of  his  time  as  a  graduate  student  in  the  universities  of  Berlin,  Heidel- 
berg, and  Vienna.  From  1884  to  1890  he  was  director  of  the  physio- 
logical and  pathological   laboratories  of  the  Medico-Chirurgical  College 


WILLIAM   XAVIER  SUDDUTH. 


of  Philadelphia,  and  lecturer  on  clinical  microscopy  and  genito-urinary 
diseases,  with  several  leaves  of  absence  during  the  time  for  post-gradu- 
ate study  abroad  and  lecture  courses  in  the  universities  of  Iowa  and 
California.  He  was  for  seven  years,  1887-1894,  on  the  staff  of  senior 
editors  of  the  Annual  of  the  Universal  Medical  Sciences,  Philadelphia, 
having  the  department  of  embryology,  anomalies,  and  monstrosities.  He 
wrote  a  150-page  article  on  ■•  Embryology  and  Histology"  for  the  Ameri- 
can System  of  Dentistry,  1885,  and  has  written  extensively  in  dental 
and  medical  literature  on  strictly  scientific  subjects — little  or  nothing  on 
practice:  "  Products  of  the  Epiblast, "  read  before  the  American  Medical 
Association,  Newport,  R.  I.,  1888;  "Vocal  Resonance,"  ibid.,  at  the 
San  Francisco  meeting,  1894;  ••The  Antrum  of  Highmore  in  its  Rela- 
tion to  Vocal  Resonance,"  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion, November  17,  1894;  ••  Special  Forms  of  Ossification,"  read  before 
the  Ninth  International  Medical  Congress,  section  on  anatom.y,  1887: 
•'The  Present  Scientific  Status  of  Hypnotism,"  Review,  Chicago,  Feb- 
ruary, 1895:  "A  Study  in  the  Psycho-physics  of  Music."  Minnesota 
Magazine,  April,  1895;  ■•Psycho-physics  of  Sleep,"  Journal  of  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association,  1895;  ■•  Hypnotism  and  Crime,"  Medico- 
Legal  Congress,  N.  Y.,  1895;  "Heredity  in  its  Relation  to  Inebriety: 
Degeneration  or  Regeneration,"  Union  Signal,  and  ••Suggestion  as  an 
Ideo-dynamic  Force,"  Chicago  Academy  of  Medicine,  1895. 

Dr.  Sudduth  has  given  much  time  to  photo-micrography,  and  dis- 
covered, in  1885,  a  method  of  reproducing  the  colors  of  the  original 
microscopic  specimen  in  the  lantern  slide,  without  hand  painting.  He 
has  devised  a  plan  for  treating  empyema  antri  by  means  of  specia'ly 
placed  tubes;  also  a  mento-dental  splint  for  treatment  of  fracture  of  the 
inferior  maxilla,  described  in  Garretson's  Oral  Surgery.  Dr.  Sudduth 
is  now  university  extension  lecturer  on  biology,  Chicago  University, — 
Taken  from  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  America. 


Edwin   Malaney  Van  Petten. 


ILLINOIS     WESLEY  AN    UNIVERSITY. 


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EDWirs  Halanet  \lf\n  Fctten. 

CLftSS  OF   1865 

Edwin  Malaney  Van  Petten.  B.  S..  M.  S..  superintendent  of  the 
city  schools  of  Bloomington.  Illinois,  was  born  in  1863  at  Trivoli,  Illi- 
nois. Left  fatherless  at  seven  years  of  age  :  in  the  country  schools 
until  twelve  years  of  age;  finished  the  ward  schools,  Peoria,  Illinois: 
spent  one  year  in  a  county  Normal  school,  teaching  half  of  the  year  as 
special  substitute  in  the  training  department ;  then  entered  the  Peoria 
high  school  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1882.  the  fall  of  which  year 
he  entered  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  with  a  view  to  the  Christian 
ministry;  was  graduated  in  1885.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Adelphic 
literary  society,  of  the  Phi  Gamma  Delta  fraternity,  and  represented  the 
oratorical  association  in  the  state  contest  in  1884.  During  the  summer 
of  1885,  he  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  at 
Sheldon,  Illinois,  and  spent  the  year  1885-6  at  Drew  Theological  Sem- 
inary, having  sought  the  special  instruction  of  Dr.  Miley  upon  subjects 
which  had  given  him  mental  perplexity.  The  summer  of  1886  he  sup- 
plied Ash  Grove  circuit.  Central  Illinois  Conference,  which  conference 
he  joined  in  1886  and  was  appointed  to  Braidwood,  where  he  remained 
until  March  of  the  next  year,  when  he  took  a  position  in  the  high  school 
at  Joliet.  Illinois,  and  soon  became  its  principal.  Here  he  manifested 
marked  ability  as  teacher  and  administrator  until  he  was  called,  in 
1892,  to  the  superintendency  of  the  city  schools  of  Bloomington,  Illinois. 
He  has  done  much  to  perfect  the  system  in  Bloom.ington  and  has  ele- 
vated the  standard  of  the  schools  until  they  compare  most  favorably 
with  the  very  best  in  the  State.  He  is  justly  considered  one  of  the 
most  efficient  and  successful  public  school  men  in  the  State  of   Illinois. 

In  1887  he  married  Stellula  D.  Young,  of  the  class  of  1887.  who 
died  in  April.  1892.  leaving  three  children  to  the  care  of  the  father.    In 


August,  1893,  Mr.  Van  Petten  married  Anna  Fitz  Henry,  who  had  been 
for  a  few  years  one  of  Bloomington'smost  efficient  public  school  teachers. 

JACOB    LA  FAYETTE  BURRITT.  CLASS  OF    1884. 

Jacob  La  Fayette  Burritt,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.,  was  born  in   New  York 

in  1856,  the  son  of  a  wealthy  man- 
ufacturer. His  youth  had  the  double 
advantage  of  farm  and  factory  life. 
In  1875  he  entered  Cook  Academy. 
Havana,  New  York,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1887.  The  years 
following  were  spent  in  teaching  as 
principal  or  superintendent  of  city 
schools  in  New  York  and  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  entered  the  Illinois  Wes- 
layan  University  in  1884  and  re- 
ceived its  degree  of  Ph.  B.,  from 
whch  he  also  took  his  Master's  de- 
gree on  examination. 

Mr.  Burritt  has  given  much  time 
to  the  study  of  philosophy  and  so- 
ciology, and  has  b3?n  a  most  popu- 
lar lecturer  at  teachers'  institutes 
and  associations. 


JACOB    LA    FAYETTE    BURRITT. 

EDWARD    S.    JANES.    CLASS  OF 


1878. 


Edward  S.  Janes,  B.  A.,  studied  law  in  the  office  of  his  brother, 
George  M.  Janes,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1880.  and  began  the 
praric:  of  law  in  Quincy,  in  1835.  Later  he  located  in  Norton.  Kan- 
sas and  became  attorney  for  the  Missouri  Pacific  Railroad.  His 
present  address  is  Marysville.  Missouri,  where  he  is  now  practicing  law. 


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ISAAC   E.  VALE. 


ISAAC  EDWIN  VALE,  CLASS  OF    1876. 

Isaac  Edwin  Vale,  a  graduate  of  the  law  department  of  the  year 
1878.  was  born  in  Washington  county.  Pennsylvania.  May  19.  1852.     In 
1856  his  parents  and  family  moved  to  Illinois,  locating 
,-^    "iwv     '"  '^^   vicinity  of  where    Lostant   now  stands,  where 
j"^^*  \   the  lad  grew  to   manhood  on  his  father's  farm.     He 
attended  public  and  town  schools,  walking  six  miles  a 
day.  part  of  the  time,  to  do  so. 

This  was  followed  by  two  years  teaching  in  public 
schools.  In  September,  1876,  he  entered  the  law 
school,  working  the  while  with  the  distinguished  law 
firm  of  Williams,  Burr  and  Capen.  and  also  taking  an 
active  part  in  the  Belles  Lettres  Society,  from  which 
he  received  a  diploma. 

In  June.  1878.  graduating  third  in  a  class  of  seventeen  members, 
he  soon  thereafter  entered  upon  his  chosen  profession  of  the  law  in  part- 
nership with  Hon.  S.  P.  Robinson.  The  prospects  not  seeming  bright 
where  so  many  attorneys  were  at  the  bar.  Mr.  Vale  removed  in  1879  to 
Superior.  Nebraska,  where  he  has  resided  continuously  to  the  present 
time,  following  the  practice  of  the  law  in  connection  with  other  business 
of  a  lucrative  nature,  and  has  built  up  an  active  and  extensive  business. 
His  home  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in  the  city,  and  is  enjoyed  by  his 
estimable  wife  and  three  bright  children,  the  eldest  of  whom,  thirteen 
years  of  age.  is  now  in  the  high  school  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Vale  has  held  many  public  positions  of  honor  and  trust,  and  is 
an  active  worker  in  the  church  and  public  enterprises. 

FRANCIS  ROBERT  BEATTIE,  CLASS    OF    1884,  GRADUATE    DEPARTMENT. 

Among  the  many  strongmen  who  have  completed  a  graduate  course 
in  the  university.  Rev.  Francis  Robert   Beattie.  B.  A..  Ph.  D..  D.  D., 


professor  of  systematic  theology  and  apologetics,  Presbyterian  Theologi- 
cal Seminary,  Louisville.  Kentucky,  must  be  numbered.  He  is  a  man 
of  excellent  presence,  a  hard  student,  profound  thinker,  clear  and  enthu- 
siastic teacher,  and  an  interesting  and  instructive  preacher. 


ALFRED  OSCAR  COFFIN,  CLASS  OF 


i,  GRADUATE  DEPARTMENT. 


Alfred  Oscar  Coffin  was  born  of  slave  parents  in  Poncotoc,  Missis- 
sippi, May  14,  1861.  After  the  war,  as  there  were  no  schools  for  col- 
ored people,  his  father  and  several 
neighbors  hired  a  white  man  from 
the  North  to  teach  a  private  school 
In  1873  Rust  University  was  fourded 
at  Holly  Springs,  Mississippi,  where 
he  prepared  for  college.  In  1881  he 
entered  Fisk  University,  at  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee,  graduating  with  A. 
B.  in  1875.  The  same  year  he 
matriculated  in  biology,  post-gradu- 
ate course.  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity; received  M.  A.,  1888;  Ph. 
D.,  1889;  taught  public  schools  in 
Mississippi,  Tennessee  and  Texas, 
1887-8;  professor  science,  Alcorn 
Agricultural  and  Mechanical  College, 
Rodney,  Mississippi;  1889-'94,  pro- 
fessor science  and  mathematics, 
Wiley  University,  Marshall,  Texas; 
1881,    married    Miss    Minnie    May 

Baker,   Dallas,   Texas;    children,    Lillian  Vio'a,   Oscar   Laurine.      His 
work  in   the  post-graduate  department  was  of   the   very  highest    order. 


ALFRED  OSCAR  COFFIN. 


ILLINOIS     WES  LEY  AN    UNIVERSITY. 


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GEORGE   H.   HOWE,  CLASS  OF    1889. 

George  H.  Howe,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.,  professor  of  mathematics  in  the 
State  Normal  School,  Warrensburg,  Missouri,  was  born  in  Oswell,  Penn- 
sylvania,  1859.     Studied   in   Susquehanna   Collegegiate   Institute,   To- 

wanda,  Pennsylvania,  and  graduat.d 
from  the  classical  course  of  the 
State  Normal  and  training  school, 
Oswego,  New  York;  studied  at  Cor- 
nell University.  New  York,  and  com- 
pleted his  collegiate  course  in  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University  in  1889; 
is  now  a  student  pursuing  a  course 
in  pedagogy  preparing  for  the  degree 
of  Ph.  D. 

Prof.  Howe  is  a  man  of  fine  per- 
sonal appearance,  a  devoted  member 
and  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church. 

HORATIO    C.     BENT,     CLASS     OF     1879. 

One  of  the  quiet,  modest  men, 
but  one  of  the  most  gentlemanly 
and  scholarly  of  all  who  have  hon- 
ored their  alma  mater,  is  Horatio 
Grimes  Bent,  B.  S..  LL.  B.,  who 
completed  the  literary  course  in  1879  and  the  law  in  1881.  In  1884, 
his  scholarly  habits  and  extensive  legal  knowlege  were  recognized  by  an 
election  to  a  professorship  in  the  school  of  law,  which  he  held  until  vol- 
untarily relinquished  in  1891  that  his  increasing  business  might  have  his 
exclusive  attention.  Still  interested  in  educational  affairs,  he  renders 
the  public  valuable  service  on  the  board  of  public  education. 


GEORGE   H.   HOWE. 


GEORGE  LILLEY,  CLASS    OF   1883.  GRADUATE    DEPARTMENT. 

President  George  Lilley,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.,  was  born  in  Ke- 

wanee,  Illinois,  in  1850;  prepared 
for  college  in  the  public  schools  and 
entered  the  freshman  class  at  Knox 
College  in  1869.  In  1872  he  en- 
tered Michigan  University  and  com- 
pleted a  special  course  in  mathe- 
matics. After  a  short  business 
career,  he  entered  upon  the  profes- 
sion of  a  teacher  and  developed  un- 
usual aptitude  in  the  study  of  pure 
mathematics,  and  has  won  an  ex- 
tensive reputation  as  a  mathema- 
tician by  his  contributions  to  the 
various  magazines  and  journals,  and 
his  text-books :  First  Principles  of 
Algebra,  Elements  of  Algebra,  High 
School  Algebra,  and  Blank  for 
Teachers. 

The  Master  in  Arts  degree,  pro 
merito.  was  conferred  upon  him  in 
1870  by  Washington  and  Jefferson  College,  and  in  1886  by  Knox  Col- 
lege. In  1887  Chaddock  College  conferred  upon  him  an  honorary  degree 
of  LL.  D.  His  study  in  the  university  in  1883-6  was  in  mathematics, 
in  which  he  is  master.  Dr.  Lilley  organized  the  Dakota  Agricultural 
College  in  1884,  and  served  for  seven  years  as  president  and  professor 
of  mathematics.  In  1891  he  organized  the  Agricultural  College  and 
School  of  Science  in  Washington,  and  served  two  years  as  its  president. 
He  is  now  principal  of  Park  School.  Oregon. 


GEORGE  LILLEY. 


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HISTORICAL    SKETCH   AND    ALUMNI  RECORD, 


T.   M.    M'INTYRE.   president  LADIES'  COLLEGE,  TORONTO,  CANADA. 

T.  M.  Mclntyre.  M.  A.,  LL,  D.,  Ph.  D.,  is  a  Canadian  by  birth. 
and  one  of  the  first  educators  of  the  Province  of  Ontario,  Canada.  He 
has  given  over  twenty-five  years  to  the  cause  of  education,  under  the 
excellent  system    which   has   given  Ontario  a  world  wide  reputation  in 

matters  educational.  For  the  past 
sixteen  years  Dr.  Mclntyre  has  de- 
voted his  attention  to  the  higher 
education  of  women,  and  in  order 
to  have  the  facilities  necessary  for 
carrying  out  his  ideal,  he  founded 
and  established  as  a  proprietary  in- 
stitution the  Presbyterian  Ladies" 
College  of  the  city  of  Toronto.  The 
unparallelled  success  of  this  insti- 
tution speaks  volumes  for  the  wide 
reputation  of  its  president. 

His  Bachelor's  degree  was  ob- 
tained in  Victoria  University  in 
1867.  The  degree  of  LL.  B.  was 
conferred  in  1878,  and  that  of  Ph, 
D.,  by  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity in  1887,  after  a  rigid  course 
T.  M.  m'intyre.  '"  history  and  political  science  had 

been  successfully  pursued  His 
reading  has  been  wide  in  the  department  of  philosophy  and  also  in  that 
of  literature,  in  which  he  is  pre-eminently  a  Shakespearean  scholar. 
His  lectures  on  the  "Ethics  of  the  English  Drama,"  and  "The  imagi- 
nation in  the  Drama."  show  him  to  be  an  original  interpreter.  He  is 
Canadian  examiner  in  the  Non-resident  and  Graduate  Department. 


JOSEPH  T.    KINGSBERRY,  CLASS  OF    1891. 

Joseph  T.  Kingsberry,  Ph.  B.,  M  A.,  Ph.  D,.  vice-president  of 
the  University  of  Utah,  was  born  in  Utah  in  1853.  He  had  the  early 
advantages  which  come  to  a  boy  born  upon  a  farm,  and  there  he  laid 
the  foundation  for  a  strong  physical 
organism  and  formed  habits  of  indus- 
try. His  elementary  education  was 
obtained  in  Morgan  Commercial 
College  and  under  the  private  tuiMon 
of  Karl  G.  Masser  and  Dr.  John  R. 
Park  in  the  University  at  Deseret. 
In  1875  he  entered  Cornell  Univer- 
sity, taking  a  complete  course  in 
chemistry  and  physics.  In  1877  he 
taught  the  Twelfth  District  School, 
and  in  1878  he  was  called  to  the 
University  of  Deseret,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1895. 

His  work  in  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University  was  of  a  high  grade,  and 
showed  himself  to  be  possessed  of 
great  capacity  for  work.  He  is  quiet 
and  undemonstrative  in  manner,  but 
has  the  qualities  of  firmness  and  en- 
durance. In  1882  Dr,  Kinsberry  was  appointed  acting  president  of  the 
University  of  Utah,  at  which  time  prejudice  obtained  against  the  uni- 
versity, and  within  there  was  no  harmony.  Through  his  wise  manage- 
ment and  kindly  spirit,  the  prejudices  both  Mormon  and  non-Mormon 
have  been  allayed,  In  1894  the  regents  of  the  university  invited  him  to 
become   its  president,  but   believing  that  the  greatest  interests  of  the 


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university  would  not  be  most  wisely  conserved  by  acceptance,  he  sought 
to  have  Dr.  Talmage.  former  president  of  the  Latter  Day  Saints'  Uni- 
versity, elected  president,  which  was  done.  Dr.  Kingsberry  continued 
as  professor  of  chemistry  and  physics. 

JOHN  GALLAGHER. CLASS  OF    1380.  GRADUATE    DEPARTMENT. 

Rev.  John  Gallagher.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  member  of  the  Ne- 
braska Conference,  was  born   in  St.  Clair,   Michigan,    in    1846.       His 

secondary  education  was  obtained  in 
the  grammar  school  in  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  and  Sycamore  high 
school.  He  taught  school  for  a 
number  of  years  in  Illinois  and  Ne- 
braska before  entering  upon  his  min- 
istry. 

He  is  an  accurate  and  thorough 
scholar,  a  profound  reasoner,  and  a 
tireless  worker  in  his  calling.  He 
has  rare  tact  and  ability  in  managing 
the  finances  of  his  congregation,  and 
has  been  instrumental  in  building  up 
a  number  of  the  best  churches  in 
Nebraska  Methodism.  He  has  been 
secretary  of  his  conference  and  one 
term  presiding  elder. 

In  1880,  he  received  his   degree 
JOHN   GALLAGHER.  of  Ph.  B..   and   at   the   same   time 

matriculated  in  the  graduate  depart- 
ment. The  Master's  degree  was  taken  in  1883,  and  the  Doctor's  de- 
gree in  1889. 


WILLIAM    S.     MARQUIS,    CLASS    OF     1876. 

Rev.  William  S.  Marquis,  B.  A.,  M.  A..  D.  D..  was  born  of  Pres- 
byterian parents  in  the  city  of  Bioomington.  Illinois,  and  prepared  for 
college  in  the  public  schools.      He  entered  the  freshman  class  as  a 

graduate  from  the  high  school  in  1872. 
and  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of 
his  course  ranked  high  as  a  student. 
He  was  diligent,  careful,  conscientious 
and  thorough  in  all  his  work  as  a  stu- 
dent :  in  appearance  neat,  and  in  man- 
ner affable  and  gentlemanly;  while  in 
character  noble  in  spirit  and  righteous 
in  conduct. 

After  graduating  in  1876.  he  entered 
the  theological  seminary  in  Princeton, 
New  Jersey,  and  there  took  the  de- 
gree of  B.  D.  He  began  the  work  of 
a  most  successful  ministry  as  pastor  of 
v/iLLiAM  s.   MARQUIS.  the    Presbyterian  church    at    Minonk, 

Illinois,  where  he  remained  five  years, 
when  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  Broadway  Presbyterian  church.  Rock 
Island,  where  he  still  remains  and  is  serving  the  twelfth  year,  growing  in 
popularity  and  increasing  in  influence.  He  is  chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Foreign  Missions  for  his  Synod,  and  discharges  the  functions  of  the 
office  with  fidelity,  zeal  and  skill.  As  a  preacher,  he  is  thoughtful, 
scholarly  and  spiritual,  and  in  his  pastoral  labors  happily  blends  genuine 
piety  and  common  sense.  Like  other  strong  men  of  Presbyterianism 
who  have  been  educated  at  the  university,  Mr.  Marquis  is  ample  proof 
of  the  claim  that  a  college  may  be  denominational  and  at  the  same 
time  non-sectarian,  yet  positively  Christian.    Received  D.  D.  (Knox).  '95. 


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GEORGE  DANIEL.  CLASS  OF  1888,  GRADUATE  DEPARTMENT. 

Rev.  George  Daniel.  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  was  born  in  July, 
1852.  of  English  parentage.  He  commenced  to  preach  at  the  age  of 
sixteen.  About  two  years  later  he  was  received  by  the  conference  and 
appointed  to  the    Adelaide  circuit,  Ontario.     He  was  ordained  in  1876 

in  the  city  of  St.  Catherines, 
after  taking  a  course  in  the  Vic- 
toria University.  Soon  after  he 
was  stationed  on  the  Niagara  dis- 
trict, where  he  spent  four  years  ; 
he  was  then  stationed  in  London, 
Ontario,  whence  he  was  sent  to 
the  cily  of  Winnipeg,  as  pastor 
of  the  Bannatyne  street  church, 
in  1883.  In  1886  he  received 
an  invitation  to  Regina.  the  cap- 
ital of  the  North-west  Territo- 
ries. In  1889  he  was  stationed 
in  the  beautiful  town  of  Portage 
La  Prairie,  where,  in  addition  to 
the  pastorate  he  was  for  several 
years  professor  of  modern  lan- 
guages in  Lansdowne  college  ;  he 
was  then  stationed  in  the  city  of 
Brandon,  and  at  the  close  of  his 
pastorate  there  received  an  invi- 
tation to  the  pastorate  of  Queen's  Avenue  church.  London,  one  of  the 
most  important  charges  in  Canadian  Methodism.  During  the  last  few 
years  he  has  been  district  chairman,  examiner  in  history  and  literature, 
and  secretary  of  the  board  of   examiners  for  the    Manitoba  and  North- 


CEORGE    DANIEL. 


west  Conference.  Mr.  Daniel  is  a  thorough  student,  an  eloquert 
preacher,  who  excels  as  an  organizer.  He  is  a  fair  representative  in 
scholarship  of  the  many  excellent  men  who  have  entered  the  university 
from  Canada  and  now  stand  at  the  front  in  the  ministry  and  the  leading 
professions. 

THOMAS  WILSON   m'VETY,  CLASS  OF    1891. 

Rev.  Thomas  Wilson  McVety,  B.  A..  B.  D.,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  was 
born  in  Loughboro,  Ontario,  Canada,  in  1848.  In  1873  he  joined  the 
Bay  of  Quinte  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Church.  In  1875  he  took 
his  B.  A.  degree  from  Albert  College. 
During  his  collegiate  course  he  took 
first  honors  in  the  studies  of  oriental 
languages  and  metaphysics,  was  ex- 
aminer in  oriental  languages  in  Al- 
bert College  for  four  years;  studied 
theology  in  Coburg  University  and 
received  the  B.  D.  degree  in  1885. 
Having  preached  ten  years  in  Can- 
ada, he  came  to  the  United  States 
in  1885  and  joined  the  Central 
Illinois  Conference,  and  has  served 
its  best  charges  at  Pontiac.  Normal, 
Kankakee  and  Peoria,  He  com- 
pleted the  post-graduate  course  for 
Doctor  of  Philosophy,  June.  1891; 
has  been  and  is  a  most   influential  thomas  wilson  m'vety. 

member  of  the  joint  board  of  trus- 
tees of  the  university.      He  is  a  master  in  organization,  a  power  in  the 
pulpit,  and  has  the  happy  faculty  of  inspiring-  all  his  people  to  work, 


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CLARENCE   E.  SNYDER,  CLASS  OF    1895. 

Clarence  E.  Snyder.  B.  A.,  instructor  in  German  and  French,  was 
born  in  Moweaqua,  Illinois,  in  1872.      in  his  village  schools  he  received 

instruction  until,  in  1887.  he 
entered  the  preparatory  school 
of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity, from  which  time  until 
June.  1895,  he  was  a  close 
and  diligent  student.  During 
all  his  college  career  he 
s'lowed  marked  ability  in  his 
specialties,  the  languages,  and 
has  tutored  at  home  and  in 
college  more  or  less  for  four 
years.  He  taught  classes  in 
French  and  German  in  the 
university  during  the  years 
1893-94.  During  the  college 
year  of  1894-95  he  was  editor- 
in-chief,  by  faculty  appoint- 
ment, of  the  Wesleyan  Argus, 
the  college  paper.  He  was 
also  president  of  his  class.  In 
1895  he  was  elected  instructor 
in  French  and  German,  and 
is  at  present  pursuing  graduate  work  in  German  under  Prof.  Ferguson. 
His  present  position  is  one  which  severely  tests  his  power  in  the 
class  room,  and  he  who  successfully  meets  such  a  test  need  never  fear. 
He  expects  to  go  to  Germany  next  year  and  study  in  the  best  univer- 
sities with  a  view  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy. 


CLARENCE   E.   SNYDER. 


MARTHA    MATHENY.  CLASS  OF    1895. 

Miss  Martha  Matheny.  B.  S.,  assistant  in  the  preparatory  school, 
is  also  a  native  of  McLean  county,  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Matheny,  of 
the  Central  Illinois  Conference.  She  prepared  for  college  in  the  pre- 
paratory school  of  the  university, 
and  completed  the  college  course, 
and  received  the  degree  of  B.  S. 
in  1895. 

She  began  teaching,  however. 
in  the  public  schools  when  very 
young  and  developed  great  abil- 
ity to  impart  information  and  to 
awaken  the  minds  of  students. 
After  nearly  four  years'  experi- 
ence in  public  schools,  she  was 
assistant  principal  in  the  high 
school  of  Urbana,  Illinois,  for 
two  years,  where  she  taught  Latin, 
rhetoric,  and  history,  previous  to 
her  graduation  in  1895.  During 
her  entire  college  course  she  has 
been  an  honor  student,  and  was 
universally  respected  for  her 
moral  qualities,  and  regarded  as 
a  young  woman  of  extraordinary 
intellectual  constitution.  She  is  regarded  as  a  valuable  acquisition  to 
the  preparatory  school,  every  day  evincing  additional  evidences  of  the 
wisdom  of  the  action  of  the  board  of  trustees  in  calling  her  to  the  posi- 
tion of  assistant.  She  exerts  a  positive  influence  in  the  work  of  the 
literary  societies  and  in  Christian  Associations. 


MARTHA  MATHENY. 


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WILLIAM  MONTGOMERY  CARR.  CLASS  OF    1884. 

William  Montgomery  Carr.  B.  A.,  M.  A..  B.  D.,  spent  his  youth 
on  the  prairies  of  Illinois,  under  the  conditions,  substantially,  which  pre- 
vail at  this  time.     He.  however,  was  the  one  of  the  thousand  who  cared 

for  the  discipline  and  cul- 
ture of  the  college,  and 
turned  a  deaf  ear  to  the 
siren  voice  of  mercantil- 
ism which  leads  the  mul- 
titude blindly  by  the  best 
opportunity  for  best  liv- 
ing :  to  carry  out  a  high- 
er purpose,  he  entered 
the  university  and  com- 
pleted its  course  of  study 
in  1884.  Like  many 
others  in  western  col- 
leges, being  compelled 
to  earn  in  part  the  money 
necessary  to  a  college 
education,  he  served  as 
a  student  pastor  for  some 
time  previous  to  gradu- 
ation and  waseminent'y 
successful.  Ambitious  to  excel  in  his  chosen  work  and  desiring  the 
best  preparation  for  it,  he  went  to  Drew  Thejlcg  cal  Seminary  and  on 
completing  his  studies  received  the  degree  of  B.  D.  Having  united 
with  the  New  York  East  Conference,  he  has  been  faithful  and  successful. 
receiving  honorable  preferment  in  his  conference.  He  is  now  pastor  of 
St.  Andrew's  church.  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 


WILLIAM  MONTCCMERY  CARR. 


DELMAR  DUANE  DARRAH,  CLASS  OF  1889. 

Delmar  Duane  Darrah,  B.  S.,  M.  S.,  professor  of  elocution,  was 
born  in  Tolono,  Illinois,  in  1868.  He  entered  the  preparatory  school  of 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  from  Bloomington,  and  completed  its  classical 
course  in  1889.  Two  years  after  graduation  he  spent  in  study  in  his 
chosen  profession  under  the  best  teachers  of  oratory  in  the  West,  be- 
ginning his  work  under  Professor  Brownlee  of  the  University  of  Illinois 
and  continuing  under  Professor  Lyman  of  Chicago.  He  was  elected  to 
his  present  position  in  1893. 

During  his  college  course  he  early  manifested  considerable  interest 
in  voice  culture  and  declamation,  and  frequently  appeared  in  oratorical 
contests.  He  has  a  splendid  voice,  is  most  polished  and  graceful  in 
delivery,  clear  and  forcible  in  thought,  and  is  a  ready  and  apt  teacher  in 
his  profession.  He  also  has  charge  of  the  classes  in  physical  culture. 
Here  he  is  rational  and  scientific,  aiming  not  at  pleasure  but  health. 

CHARLES  SYLVESTER    PARMENTER,   CLASS  OF    1883. 

In  June,  1883,  a  slender  youth  of  scholastic  mien  and  interesting 
address  arrested  the  attention  of  one  of  the  conference  visitors,  who  was 
informed  upon  inquiry  that  the  young  man  had  made  a  splendid  record 
as  a  thorough  going  student,  always  doing  more  than  was  required,  and 
was  as  manly  as  he  was  studious.  Charles  Sylvester  Parmenter,  B.  A., 
M.  A.,  was  that  youth,  and  well  has  he  sustained  himself  and  fulfilled 
the  graduation  day  promise.  Immediately  after  graduation  he  was 
called  to  the  professorship  of  natural  science  at  Baker  University,  Bald- 
win, Kansas.  By  industry,  scholarship  and  enthusiasm  for  his  work,  he 
has  made  that  department  of  Baker  strong  and  inviting,  and  himself  a 
name  for  tf,'icient  teaching.  The  Wesleyan  congratulates  itself  on  hav- 
ing contributed  a  Parmenter  to  the  chair  of  science  and  a  Motter  to  the 
executive  board  as  trustee  and  treasurer  of  Baker  University. 


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LILLIE  ENGLISH   DIMMITT.  CLASS  OF    1888. 

Miss    Lillie   English    Dimmitt.   B.  A..   M.  A.,  entered  the  Illinois 

Wesleyan  University  in  1884,  hav- 
ing graduated  in  June  of  that  year 
from  the  Decatur  high  school.  A 
part  of  her  preparatory  work  she 
pjrsued  at  Illinois  Female  College. 
She  graduated  from  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan in  1888.  receiving  the  degree 
of  A.  B.  She  was  elected  by  the 
board  as  instructor  in  English  and 
assistant  in  the  non-resident  depart- 
ment. 

She  has  pursued  her  study  in  the 
classics  at  Chicago  University.  For 
the  past  three  years  she  has  been 
teaching  Latin  and  Greek  in  the 
University  of  the  Northwest,  Sicux 
City,  Iowa. 

EMMA  HERRON   MARTIN.  CLASS  OF  '84. 
LILLIE  ENGLISH   DIMMITT. 

Emma  Herron,  a  native  of  Illinois, 
was  graduated  from  the  university  in  1884.  having  prepared  for  college 
in  the  preparatory  department. 

From  1884  to  1887  she  taught  in  the  high  school  at  Rushville, 
Illinois:  1887-90.  she  was  professor  of  English  history  at  Chaddock 
College:  1890-92.  professor  of  English  in  the  college  at  Fort  Worth, 
Texas:  since  1893.  professor  and  preceptress,  Randolph-Macon  Wo- 
man's College.  Lynchburg,  Virginia:  married  F.  W.  Martin,  professor 
of  science  in  Randolph- Macon  College,  in  1889. 


RACHEL  BAUMANN,  CLASS  OF  1888. 

Rachel  Baumann.  B.  S.,  teacher  of  elocution  in  the  high  school. 
Denver,  Colorado,  is  the  daughter  cf  Rev.  J.  V.  Baumann,  of  the  class 
of  1863.  She  prepared  for  college  in  the  public  schools  of  her  native 
city,  Bloomington,  and  the  preparatory  school  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University,  and  was  graduated  in  1888,  with  honor.  Immediately  after 
her  graduation  she  went  tc  Boston  and  spent  some  time  in  the  study  of 
elocution  and  dramatic  art,  returning  to  Bloomington  in  1892.  Soon 
after  she  accepted  a  position  in  the  Waco  Female  Seminary,  at  Waco, 
Texas,  from  which  position  she  was  called  to  Denver,  Colorado,  where 
she  is  meeting  with  remarkable  success,  displaying  great  ability  in  her 
chosen  profession. 

As  a  student.  Miss  Baumann  was  painstaking  and  thorough  in  all 
she  did,  and  belonged  to  that  small  class  of  students  which  does  more 
in  the  college  course  than  is  required  for  graduation.  Early  in  her  col- 
lege career  she  m.anifested  ability  as  a  reader,  and  is  remembered  by 
faculty  and  students  as  a  young  woman  of  great  intellectual  ability. 

MARY   E.   BRADFORD.  CLASS  OF    1879. 

Who  was  not  thrilled  by  reading  the  story  of  that  heroine  at  Tabriz, 
Persia,  during  the  days  of  the  plague  in  1891  ?  It  was  Mary  E.  Brad- 
ford, B.  A.,  M.  A.,  M.  D.,  who  rendered  such  self-sacrificing  service  to 
the  suffering  and  so  highly  exemplified  the  Christly  spirit  and  adorned 
her  profession. 

She  was  born  at  Selma,  Illinois:  prepared  for  college  in  our  pre- 
paratory school  and  graduated  from  the  college  of  letters  in  1879.  She 
then  entered  the  Wonian's  Medical  College,  Chicago,  from  which  she 
received  her  degree:  spent  one  year  in  the  New  England  Hospital  for 
Women,  and  since  1889  has  been  in  Persia  as  medical  missionary  under 
the  direction  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign  Missions. 


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J.  WELLINGTON  FRIZZELLE,  CLASS  OF    1876. 

J.  Wellington  Frizzelle,  B.  A.,  M.  A.,  B.  D.,  comes  from  English 
blood,  his  ancestors,  both  paternal  and  m.aternal,  having  come  from 
England  with  Lord  Baltimore  and  settled  in  Maryland.  His  father  was 
born  in  Kentucky,  and  his  mother  in  Ohio. 

Wellington  was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  eight  children,  and  was 
left  fatherless  when  but  twelve  years  old.  Under  the  guidance  of  his 
mother,  he  completed  the  public  school  course  at  Rock  Island,  then 
spent  two  winters  in  teaching  and  one  as  clerk  in  a  general  store,  during 
all  of  which  time  he  kept  up  his  Latin  and  Greek,  and  prepared  himself 
for  the  sophomore  class,  which  he  entered  at  the  Wesleyan  in  1873, 
graduating  from  that  institution  with  the  B.  A.  degree,  in  1876.  He 
also  spent  some  time  at  the  Northwestern  University,  and  took  a  full 
course  in  Drew  Theological  Seminary.  He  is  a  man  of  splendid  social 
qualities,  good  address,  and  has  fine  oratorical  powers.  He  is  one  of 
the  strong  men  of  the  Central  Illinois  Conference,  and  has  served  some 
of  its  best  churches.  He  has  several  times  been  an  official  visitor  to 
his  alma  mater  appointed  by  his  conference.  His  present  address  is 
Onarga,  Illinois,  where  his  splendid  pulpit  and  social  powers  are  exerting 
an  important  influence  upon  the  students  of  Grand  Prairie  Seminary. 

W.   H.  CLINE,  CLASS  OF    1877,   NON-RESIDENT  DEPARTMENT. 

W.  H.  Cline,  LL.  B.,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  was  graduated  from  the 
Northern  Indiana  Normal  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.  S.,  when 
he  entered  upon  the  non-resident  course  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity, receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.  B.  The  degree  of  M.  A.  was  conferred 
by  the  U.  S.  Grant  University,  and  that  of  Ph.  D.  by  Mt.  Union  Ohio. 

For  five  years  he  occupied  the  chair  of  history  in  the  Wesleyan 
University  of  Nebraska,  but  he  is  now  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  at  Exeter,  Nebraska. 


THE    ALUMNA    AND    ALUMNI. 

Inspection  of  the  record  of  the  graduates  will  show  a  much  larger 
number  of  gentlemen  than  ladies,  though  the  number  of  the  former  does 
not  exceed  that  of  the  latter  so  much  as  the  sketches  would  indicate. 
The  relatively  small  number  of  sketches  of  ladies  is  not  due  to  the 
scarcity  of  subjects  who  have  achieved  success  as  great  as  their  broth- 
ers, but  rather  to  their  superior  modesty  and  the  inability  of  the  com- 
piler to  secure  the  necessary  data,  including  photographs.  Of  these  he 
has  a  good  stock  on  hand,  but  has  refrained  from  drawing  upon  it,  inas- 
much as  they  would  not  represent  their  subjects  as  experienced  grad- 
uates, having  been  received  in  the  early  days  of  co-education  at  the 
university  and  of  course  are  highly  valued. 

Many  others,  and  especially  of  the  graduate  department,  are  mak- 
ing their  mark  and  justifying  their  titles.  Among  them  we  would  mention 
Edward  A.  Schell,  secretary  of  the  Epworth  League  ;  Richard  Crier 
Hobbs,  the  popular  pastor  and  racy  correspondent  ;  Frank  Lenig,  of  St. 
Louis  fame;  Job  Mills,  now  one  of  the  bishops  of  the  United  Brethen 
church,  Rev.  John  C.  Jackson,  Columbus,  Ohio;  Alfred  Sydney  John- 
son, editor  of  that  admirable  Magazine,  Current  History,  Buffalo,  New 
York;  Henry  McCormick,  that  accomplished  gentleman  and  popular 
professor  in  Illinois  State  Normal  University;  Francis  Newton  Thorpe, 
author,  lecturer  and  teacher;  William  Albert  Ryan,  author  and  preacher; 
Thomas  Easton  Fleming,  correspondent  and  leader  of  Iowa  Methodism; 
Albert  Gallatin,  one  of  the  chief  men  in  that  staunch  body  of  United 
Presbyterianism  ;  Henry  Wogan,  president  of  Dakota  University,  Bis- 
marck, Dakota;  Frederick  E.  Stockton,  principal  and  teacher  of  Greek 
and  Latin,  Carleton  College,  Minnesota;  Frank  W.  Merrill, preacher,  pastor 
and  student  of  literature;  William  L.  Montague,  professor  of  modern 
languages,  Amherst  College;  and  Z.  Willis  Kemp,  professor  of  Latin, 
Springfield,  Massachusetts. 


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Members  or  the  CoRPORATiOfs. 


A 

\ccession. 

Exit. 

Allin,  James, 

1850 

1855 

Allin,  William, 

1850 

1857 

Aldrich,  C.  S., 

1876 

1880 

Ayres,  Joseph  B., 

1883 

Andrus,   Reuben, 

1850 

1852 

Adams,  William  H.  H. 

ex-officio. 

1875 

1887 

Barger,  John  S., 

1850 

1862 

*Birch,  Jesse, 

1853 

1875 

Bunn,  Lewis, 

1850 

1855 

Baker,  Benjamin  W., 

1888 

Brier,  David, 

1855 

1870 

*Beniamin,  DeWitt  C. 

,1856 

1872 

Brooks.  John  P., 

1855 

1861 

*Buck.  Hiram, 

1857 

1892 

Buck,  Martha  A., 

1892 

Bunn,  James  H.. 

1877 

*Cartwright,   Peter. 

1850 

1871 

Coleman,  Henry, 

1852 

1856 

Crissey,  W.  P., 

1856 

1856 

Chandler,  John, 

1856 

1863 

*Died  in  office. 

Cramer.  W.  R.. 
Gumming.  Joseph  S. 
Cumming.  Frank  C, 
Coler.  W.  N., 
Culver.  J.  F.. 
Chaffee.  Francis  M., 
Collins.  Williami  C. 
Clark.  Hyre  D.. 
Davis.  George  P., 
Davis,  David, 
Dimmitt,  James  P., 
Douglas,  David  T., 
Dever,  William 

McDowell, 
Ewing.  John  N.. 
Ewing.  James  S.. 
Elliott, S.  H., 
Evans,  Jervis  G.. 
English.  Joseph  G., 
Finley,  James  C, 
*Funk,  Isaac, 


Accession. 

Exit. 

/ 

\ccession. 

Exit. 

1862 

1868 

Fallows.  Samuel,  ex- 

,     1863 

1864 

officio. 

1873 

1875 

1891 

Funk,  George. 

1863 

1874 

1870 

1876 

Fairbanks,  George  W. 

,  1856 

1862 

1874 

1879 

Fell,  Kersey  H., 

1850 

1855 

1874 

1884 

Fell.  Jesse  W.. 

1851 

1856 

1876 

1879 

*Fullinwider. Jacob  N. 

,  1870 

1876 

1890 

Funk.  S.  C. 

1877 

1877 

1886 

Fifer,  Joseph  W.. 

1891 

1893 

1852 

1856 

Goodfellow.  William, 

1851 

1855 

1864 

1870 

Goddard.  Abbott. 

1852 

1854 

1879 

Graves.  Linus. 

1850 

1856 

\  1855 

1887 

Gillett,  Philip  G.. 

1870 

1876 

(  1893 

Gorin,  Jerome, 

1871 

1874 

1850 

1852 

Goodrich,  L.  H., 

1878 

1880 

1852 

1854 

Holliday,  Charles  M.. 

1850 

1851 

1856 

1862 

Holmes.  William  H.. 

1850 

1851 

1861 

1876 

Hobbs,  W.  C. 

1850 

1853 

1862 

1892 

Hoover.  L.. 

1855 

1857 

1850 

1851 

Holder.  Charles  W.. 

1856 

1875 

1850 

1866 

Harris.  Benjamin  F., 

1857 

1872 

Hall.  Zadoc, 
Hyde.  Edwin  C. 
Hoblit.  James  T.. 
Harvey.  Wesley  B.. 
Hawes.  Eli. 
Harding,  Chauncy. 
Hiser.  George. 

James.  Colin  D.. 
Keller.  Ahab. 
Kenyon,  Dennis. 
Kerrick.  Leonidas  H 
Kumler.  John  A.. 
Kent.  L.  B., 
Kimber.  Isaac. 
Knowlton,  C.  C. 
Lewis,  Calvin  W., 
Luccock,  John, 
Lindsay,  Vergil  S.. 

Leaton,  James, 

McDowell,  W.  G., 


Accession. 

Exit. 

1863 

1878 

1868 

1874 

1876 

1885 

1877 

1878 

1880 

1879 

1881 

1878 

1884 

1851 

1854 

1856 

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1886 

,    1886 

1879 

1861 

1876 

1858 

1864 

1861 

1864 

1850 

1852 

1855 

1861 

1881 

1889 

{  1850 

1853 

■(  1884 

1885 

1862 

1874 

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A 

ccession. 

Exit. 

•McClun.  John  E.,    ■' 
< 

1850 
1868 

1864 
1874 

Merriman,  C.  P.. 

1850 

1855 

•Magoun.  John. 

1850 

1874 

Miller.  Jan;es. 

1850 

1856 

Magee.  Thomas. 

1850 

1856 

Munsell.  Chas.  W.  C. 

1856 

1862 

Munsell.  Leander. 

1856 

1860 

Munsell.  Oliver  S..  ex- 

officio. 

1857 

1873 

Mann.  Abram. 

1876 

Mitchell.  T.  F.. 

1875 

1880 

McDowell.  J.  P.         ' 
( 

1877 
1888 

1880 
1890 

McCulloch. Charles  0. 

.1891 

McWilliams.  David. 

1872 

1889 

Meharry.  Jesse. 

1893 

Moore.  John. 

1851 

1856 

•Died  in  office.     tR< 

jsigned. 

Accession. 
Newman.  Wingate  J.,  1852 
Noble.  James  H.. 
Orendorff,  W.  J. 
Prather,  Samuel, 
PhcEHix.  F.  K.. 


Palmer.  George  R.. 

Parker,  G.  W.. 
Parker.  Dwight  L.. 
Price.  A.  C.. 

Rodger.  Thomas  P., 
Roe,  E.  R., 
Reeves,  Owen  T., 
Reeves,  William, 
Rhodes,  P.  T., 
Rowley.  R.  C. 
Ritchie.  Henderson, 


1873 
1885 
1885 
1854 
1876 
1890 
1875 
1881 
1877 

1850 
1854 
1855 
1855 
1855 
1855 
1862 


Exit. 
1855 
1875 
1890 
1887 
1856 
1885 

1879 
1886 
1880 

1855 
1856 

1857 
1861 
1861 
1874 


Accession.     Exit. 


*Rutledge,  George, 
Reed.  John. 
Rinaker,  John  1., 
Rutledge.  William  J. 

Shaffer,  A.  B., 
Sears,  Clinton  W.. 
Summers.  Henry. 
Smith,  W,  B., 

Smith,  William  M. 

Short,  John  C, 
Sargent.  J.  B., 
tSmith,  D.  C. 
Soule.  Melvin  C. 
*Sconce,  James, 
Smith,  David. 
*Swayne,  Henry  S. 


1864 
1875 
1877 
1850 

1854 
1855 
1855 
1861 
U861 
'(  1884 
1870 
1877 
1894 
1881 
1881 
1885 
1893 


1870 


1856 

1856 
1856 
1861 
1866 
1876 
1885 
1876 
1882 
1894 
1886 
1888 
1890 
1894 


Accession. 
Trotter,  W.  D.  R.,         1850 
Trimmer,  David,  1850 

Thomas.  Ezekiel,  1850 

Taylor,  Dr.,  1852 

Tilton,  G.  W.,  1854 

VanCleve,  John  W.,      1850 
VanPelt,  Samuel,  1889 

Water,  Silas, 
Wallace,  William, 
Willson,  Jesse  A., 
Whitmer.  Peter, 
Winslow.  N.  M. 
Wilder,  William, 

ex-officio, 
*Wilkinson,  J.  H. 
Welty,  Sain, 
Wood.  Preston,  Sr., 


1850 
1850 
1868 
1878 
1879 
1884 


Exit. 
1851 
1855 
1855 
1854 
1856 

1855 


1852 
1852 
1874 

1885 


1886   1891 


1890 


Officers  of  Corporation. 


PRESIDENT. 

W.  C.  Hobbs.  M.   D..  1850-52 

Hon.  James  Miller.  1852-53 

Hon.  John  E.  McClun.  1853-54 

T    P.  Rogers,  1854  55 

Charles  W    Holder.  1857-76 

Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Funk.  1876-93 
Owen  T.   Reeves,   M.  A., 

LL.  D..  1893- 


VICE-PRESIDENT. 

James  Allin,  1852-55 

Charles  W.  Holder.  1855-57 

John   Magoun.  1857-76 

George  R.  Palmer,  D.  D..  1876-84 

Frank  M,  Chaffee,  1884-85 

Wesley  B.  Harvey.  1885  93 

George  P.  Davis.  M.  A..  1893- 


SECRETARY. 

C.  P.  Merriman,  1850-53 

William  Goodfellow,  M.  A.,  1853-55 

John  Magoun,  1855-57 

Owen  T.  Reeves,  LL.  D.,  1857-76 

Jesse  A.  Willson,  1876-78 

Harry  Gray  Reeves,  M.  A.,  1878-88 
Calvin  Rayburn,  M.  S., 


TREASURER. 

Hon.  John  E.  McClun, 

1850-53 

Linus  Graves, 

1853-57 

Jesse  Birch. 

1857-78 

John  Reed, 

1878- 

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/ 


William  H.  Wilder.  M.A.,  D.D..  President  of  the  University  and  Ex-Officio  Member 

of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
Judge  Owen  T.  Reeves. M.  A..  LL.D..         -  -  -  -  President 

George  P.  Davis.  M.A..  -----  Vice-President 

Calvin  Rayburn.  M.S..  LL.B..       -----  Secretary 

Col,  John  Reed.  ------  Treasurer 


BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

TERM    EXPIRES    18.96. 

Mrs.  Martha  A.  Buck.  Decatur.  Rev.  Benjamin  W.  Baker.  M.  A..  Ph.D.. 

Peter  Whitmer.  Bloomington.  Quincy. 

Sain  Welty.  M.  A..  LL.  B..  Blooming-     Rev.  Frank  Cummings.  M.A.,  Ph.D., 

ton.  Streator. 

Hon.  Wesley  B.  Harvey,  Washington.     Rev.    Charles    O.    McCuUoch.   M.A., 

D.  D..  Peoria. 

TERM   EXPIRES    1897. 

Judge  Owen  T.  Reeves.  M.A.    LL.D.. 


Rev.  John  A.  Kumler.  M.A..  Spring- 
field. 

Abram  Mann.  Rossville. 

Dennis  Kenyon.  McLean. 

Hon.  Leonidas  H.  Kerrick.  M.  S.. 
Bloomington. 


Bloomington. 
Joseph  B.  Ayers,  Danvers. 
Rev.   Samuel  Van   Pelt.  M.A.,  D.D. 

Onarga. 


Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Funk,  Bloomington. 
George  P.  Davis.  M.A.,  Bloomington. 
Rev.  Preston  Wood,  Sr.,  Springfield. 
Jesse  Meharry,  Tolono. 


TERM   EXPIRES    1898. 

Rev.   Hyre    D.    Clark,  M.   A..    D,   D., 

Galesburg. 
Rev.  George  R.  Palmer.  D.D..  Onarga. 
William  McDowell  Dever.  Bloomington. 
James  H.  Bunn.  Peoria. 


EXECUTIVE    COnniTTEE  AMD  BOARD  OF  VISITORS 
Hon.  Leonidas  H.  Kerrick.  Chairman. 

William  H.  Wilder,  M.A.,  D.D,  Judge  Owen  T.  Reeves.  M.A..  LL.D. 

Dennis  Kenyon  Peter  Whitmer 

Hon.  Benjamin  F.  Funk  George  P.  Davis.  M.A. 

Joseph  B.  Ayers  Sain  Welty.  M.  A..  LL.B. 

Col.  John  Reed.  Treasurer  Calvin  Rayburn.  M.  S..  LL.  B. 


OFFICIAL  VISITORS 


ILLINOIS  CONFERENCE. 

Rev.  Robert  Stevens.  Mattoon. 
Rev.  James  T.  Orr.  Buffalo. 
Rev.  H.  C.  Gibbs.  B.A..  B.D..  Marshall. 
Rev.  W.  A.  Smith.  M.A..  Jacksonville. 
Rev.  Chris  Galeener.  M.A..  Decatur. 
Richard  Green  Hobbs.  M.A..  Ph.  D.. 
Decatur. 


CENTRAL  ILLINOIS  CONFERENCE. 

Rev.  J.  W.  Frizzelle.  M.A..  Monmouth. 
Rev.  Thomas Doney.  M.A..  D.D..  Kanka- 
kee 
Rev.  J.  S.  Cummings.  D.D..  Moline. 
Rev.  Reuben  B.  Williams.  Kankakee. 
Rev.  Joe  Bell.  D.D..  Pontiac. 
Rev.  Richard  Crews.  M.A..  Geneseo. 


AUDITINQ  COnniTTEE. 

George  P.  Davis.  M.A.  Judge  Owen  T.  Reeves.  M.A..  LL.  D. 

Rev.  Preston  Wood.  Sr.  Dennis  Kenyon. 
Rev.  John  A.  Kumler.  M.  A. 

STANDING    COnniTTEE  ON   FACULTY. 
Rev.  Hyre  D.  Clark.  M.A..  D.D.  Rev.  James  A.  Kumler.  M.  A. 


William  M.  Dever. 

Leonidas  H.  Kerrick.  M.S. 

Rev.  Thomas  Doney.  M.A..  D.D. 


Rev.  James  T.  Orr. 

President  W.  H.  Wilder.  M.A..  D.D. 


156 


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Board  op  Instruction. 


Adams.  William  Henry  H.,B.  A.  (Northwestern),  M.  A.,D.  D., 
President  and  Professor  of  Moral  and  Intellectual  Phil- 
osophy    1 875-87 

Adams.  Charles  C.  B.  S.  ( I.  W.  U.),  Assistant  in  Biology 1895- 

V-^  Aldrich. Orlando  W..  B.  A.  (I.  W.  U.).  M.  A.;   Ph.  D..  LL.  D. 

Professor  of  Philosophy  and  German 1 877-78 

also  Professor  of   Law 1875-80 

Andrus.  Reuben.  B.  A.  (Asbury).  M.  A.,  D.  D.,    Professor  of 

Mathematics 1 85 1  -52 

Santa.  William  E..  B.  S.  (I.  W.  U.).  Tutor 1866-67 

Barry.  Edward.  LL.  B.  (I.  W.  U.),  Professor  in  Law  School. .  1890-91 
Benjamin.  Reuben  M..  B.  A.  (Amherst),  M.  A.,LL.  D.  (  I.  W. 

U. ) .  Dean  of   Law  School 1 873-9 1 

Professor  of   Law 1 873- 

Bent,  Horatio  G..  B.  A.  (i.  W.  U.;,  M.  A.,  LL.  B..  Professor 

in   Law  School 1 884-9 1 

Bloomfield.  Ira  J..  Professor  of  Law 1875-76 

Brown.  R.  R..B.  A..  M.  A..  Professor  of  Physics  and  Natural 

History 1 875-79 

Clark.  Hyre  D..  B.  A.  (Allegheny),  M.  A..  D.  D.  (  O.  W.  U.), 

Principal  of   Preparatory  School 1 883-84 


Cole,  Charles  N.,  B.  A.  (I.  W.  U.),  Assistant  in  Preparatory 

School 1 893-94 

Crow,   George   R.,   B.   A.  (0.  W.  U.),  M.  A.,   Professor  of 

Latin 1 870-79 

Crumbaker,    Marion   V.,    B.   A.  (I.  W.  U),    M.   A.,    D.    D., 

Assistant   in  English 1874-75 

Dempster,  John,  D.  D.,  President 1852-54 

V  De  Motte,  Harvey  C,  B.  S.  (I.  W.  U.j,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D,  (Syra- 
cuse ) ,  Professor  of  Mathematics • 1 86 1  -84 

Vice-President 1866-84 

De  Motte,  Sarah  J.,  Assistant  in  Preparatory  School 1863-67 

Daniels,  W.  H.,  A.  M.,  Professor  of  English  1865-66 

Darrah,  Delmar  Duane,  B.  S.  (l.W.  U.),  M.  S.,  Professor  of 

Elocution  and  Physical  Director 1 892- 

Daugherty.  Lewis  C,   Principal  Preparatory  School, 1886-89 

Denman,   Luella  M..   B.  A.  (Michigan  University),  Charles 

Cramp  Professor  of  Belles  Lettres 1893- 

Deinninger,  William  R.,  Instructor  in  German  and  French....    1857-58 
Elrod,   Morton  J.,   B.  A.  (Simpson),  M.   A.,  Assistant   Pro- 
fessor of  Natural  Science 1 889-92 

Professor  of  Biology  and  Physics 1 892- 


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i 


Fallows.  Samuel,  D.  D.,  President  and    Professor  of    Moral 

and  Intellectual   Philosophy 1873-75 

Ferguson.  Wilbert,  B.  A.  (O.  W.  U.).    M.   A.,   Professor  of 

Greek 1894- 

Fry,  James  D..  B.  A.  [0.  W.  U.),  M.  A.,  Professor  of  Moral 

Philosophy  and  German 1 876-77 

Fry,  Susanna  M.  D.,  M.  A.  (0.  W.  U.),  Ph.  D.,  (  Syracuse), 

Charles  Cramp  Professor  of  Belle  Lettres 1876-90 

Gilbert,  Newell  D.,  B.  A,  (I.  W.  U.).  M,  A,,  Assistant  in  Latin 

and  Greek 1 875-76 

Gillan,  J,  M.,  B.  A.  (1.  W.  U.),  Instructor  in  Elocution 1880-82 

Godman.  William  D..  A.  M.,  Professor  of   Mathematics 1852-53 

Goodfelbw,   William.    B.   A,    (McKendree),    M.   A,.    Vice- 
President  and  Professor  of  Natural  Science 1 85 1  -54 

Goodwin,  William  R.,  B.  A.  (Asbury),  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  Profes- 
sor of  English 1 866-67 

Graham,  Robert  O.,  B.  A.  (Amherst),  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.  (J.  H. 

U. ).  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Geology 1 888- 

Graves,  William    F..   B.  A.  (1.  W    U.),  Acting   Professor  of 

English 1 874-75 

Graves  Alice  A. .  Assistant  in  English 1 879-80 

Gray,  George  W.,  A.  M.,  D.  D.,  Professor  of  Natural  Science. .  1870-7  1 
Green.  Calvin  W..  B.  A.  ( Ohio  W.  U. ).  M.  A..  Principal  Pre- 
paratory   School 1 889- 

Hale.  Susan  E.,  M.  A..  Professor  of  English 1876-78 

Hamill.  S.  S..  B.  A..  M.  A..  Professor  of  Elocution 1868-73 

Professor  of  English 1 870-73 


Hamilton.  John  M..  B.  S.  (O.  W.  U.;.  M.  A..  Instructor  in  Latin. .  1868-70 
Heckel,  Edward  B.,  B.  A.  (Allegheny),  Assistant  in  Natural 

Science 1 887-88 

*^He\de\,  William  Arthur.  B.  A.  (Central  Mo.).  M.  A..  Ph.  D. 

(Chicago  U.),  Instructor  in  Latin  and  German. 1890-91 

Professor  of  Greek 1 892-94 

Hughes,  William  E..  LL.  B.  (I.W.  U.).  Professor   of   Law. ..  1875-77 
'^^  Jaques.   Jabez  Robert.    B.  A..   M.  A..  Ph.  D.  (Syracuse^, 

Professor  of  Greek  and  Latin 1865-70 

Professor  of  Greek 1870-76 

Karr.  A.  G..    LL.  B..   Professor  of  Law 1876-83 

Kerrick.  Leonidas  Hamline.  B.  S.  (1.  W.  U.).  M.  S..  Principal 

of  the  Model  School 1865-66 

Knowlton,  C.  C.  M.  A..  Professor  of  Ancient  Languages 1862-65 

Kuhl.  Mary  H..  B.  A.  (I.  W.  U.).   Instructor  in  German 1874-76 

Lackland,  Melvin  P..    B.  A.  (I.  W.  U.).  M.A..  Professor  of 

Mathematics 1 892- 

Langstaff ,  Margaret.  Instructor  in   Elocution 1 890-92 

Lapham.  Martin  A..  B.A.  i  I.W.U.).  Instructor  in  Latin  and 

Greek 1 864-66 

Lindley,  Jacob  P..  B.  S.  (Indiana  S.  U.).  LL.  B.  (I.W.  U.i. 

Professor  of   Law 1883- 

Manley,  Edward  T..  B.  A.  (  Harvard  ),  Instructor  in  Latin  and 

Greek 1 886-87 

Marsh.  B.  P.,  M.  D..  Lecturer.  Physiology   and  Hygiene 1876-80 

McKay.   Robert.     B.   A.    (I.   W.   U.).   M.   A..    Principal  of 

Preparatory  Department 1883-86 


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Merriman.  C.  P..  Instructor  in  French 1871-73 

Miller.  Mrs.  Alice  S..  Assistant  in  Preparatory  School 1893-94 

Morrisey.  John  J..  LL.  B..  Professor  of  Law 1880- 

V  Moss.  Charles  M.,  B.  A.  (Syracuse..  M.  A..  Ph.  D..  Profes- 

sor of  Greek 1 878-9 1 

Dean  of  Non-resident  Department 1882-91 

Munsell.  Edward  B..  B.  A.  ( Asbury ),  M.  A..  Professor  of  Greek- .  1857-60 
Munseli.  Oliver  S..  B.  A.  (Asbury).  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  President. 

and  Professor  of  Moral  and  Intellectual   Philosophy 1857-73 

V  Myers.  Colistin  D..  LL.  B..  Professor  of  Law 1880-84 

1886- 
Nast.  Albert  J..  B.  A..  M.  A..  Professor  of  Latin  and  German. .  1879-83 

New.  Ella.  B.  S.  ( 1.  W.  U.  i.  Instructor  in  English 1886-87 

Pancake.  Joseph  M..  B.  S.  ( I.  W.  U.  i.  Instructor 1865-67 

Pierce.  W.  O..  B.  A.  '0.  W.  U.).  M.A..  Professor  of  Greek- .  1876-78 

Pope.  Willian.  S..    Instructor 1 852-53 

Porter,  Lyde  R.,  Instructor  in  Preparatory  School 1891- 

Potter,  Bradford  S..  B.  A.  (  Syracuse  ).  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.,  Profes- 
sor of   Natural  Science 1 868-75 

Professor  of   Mathematics 1 884-92 

"^  Powell.  John  Wesley,  Ph.     B.    (  I.  W.  U.  ,,  M.  A..  Ph.  D., 

Professor  of  Natural  Science 1 865-68 

Prince.  Ezra  M..  M.  A..  Professor  of  Law 1878-91 

Reed,  Elizabeth  J..  B.  S.  (  Hedding;,  M-  A.,  Ph-  D..  Instruc- 
tor in  English 1890-93 

Reeves.    Owen    T-.  B-    A.    ( O.  W.   U.  i,   M.   A-,   LL.     D-. 

Professor  of  Law 1873- 

Dean  of  Law  School 1 89 1  - 


V 


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Reymond,  Gustave,  Instructor  in   French 1 879-80 

Russell.  Rolland  A..  B.  A.  (  1.  W.  U-  ),  M.  A..  LL.  B.,  Pro- 
fessor of  Law 1 893- 

Schneider.   0..  Instructor 1  863-64 

Scott,  John   M..  LL.  D..  Lecturer,  Law  School 1889- 

Scrimger.  George  E.,  B.  A.  (  1.  W.  U.  ),  M.  A.,  B.  D.,  D.  D., 

Instructor  in  Mathematics 1 873-74 

Sears.  Clinton  W..  B.  A.  (0.  W.  U.).   M.   A..  Professor  of 

Latin  and  Greek 1 852-56 

President 1 854-56 

Sherfey.  J.  W..  M,  A..  Instructor   in  Preparatory  School 1852-54 

Snow,  Benjamin  F.,  M.  A.,  Professor  of  Latin 1858-62 

Snyder.  Clarence  E..  B.  A.  (  1.  W.  U.  ).  Instructor  in  German 

and  French 1893- 

Steele.    Robert    B..    B.    A.    (Wisconsin   U.i.   M.   A.,  Ph.  D. 

(J.  H.  U.  ).  Professor  of  Latin 1891- 

Strickland,  Charles  0.,  B.  S.  (  1.  W.  U.  ),   M.  D.,  instructor 

in  the  Preparatory  School 1 884-86 

Taylor.  James  B..  B.  A.  (1.  W.  U.).  M.  A.,  M.  D.,  Professor 

of  Natural  Science 1 876-79 

Professor  of  Physiology  and  Hygiene 1 883-9 1 

Taylor.  T.  R..  M.  A..  Professor  of  Greek 1861-63 

Thoburn,  Wilbur  W.,  B.  A.  (Allegheny),  M.  A..  Professor  of 

Natural  Science 1884-88 

Tom'.in,  J.  T.,  M.  A.,  Professor  of  Natural  Science i857-59 

Underwood,  Lucien  M..  B.  A..  M.  A..   Ph.   D..  Professor  of 

Natural  Science 1 879-84 


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Van  Pelt,  John  R.,  B.  A.  (I.  W.  U.).  M.  A..  Ph.  D.,  Instruc- 
tor in  Preparatory  School 1 883-84 

Van  Pelt,  Samuel,  B.  A.  (  I.  W.  U.  ),  M.  A.,   D.  D.,  instruc- 
tor  in   Elocution 1 877-80 

/^Wait.  William    H..  B.  A.   (Northwestern),   M.    A.,    Ph.   D., 

Professor  of   Latin 1883-90 

Vice-president 1887-90 

Acting    President 1887-88 

Walkeley,  Albert,  B.  A.  (1.  W.  U.).  Instructor  in  History  ....1873-74 

Weldon,  Lawrence,  LL.  D.,  Professor  of  Law 1876-83 

Lecturer  on  Law 1 883- 

V/ilder.  William  H..  B.  A.  (I.  W.  U.),  M.  A.,  D.  D..  Presi- 
dent and  Professor  of  Ethics  and  Metaphysics 1 888- 

Williams,  Robert  E.,  Lecturer  on   Law 1 87  1  -73 

Professor  of  Law 1873-76 

Wilkins,  Daniel,  M.  A.,  Professor  of  Natural  Science 1860-65 

Willing,  Mrs.  Jennie  P.,  M,  A.,  Professor  of  English 1874-76 

Wilson,  James  Oliver,  B,  A.  (I.  W.  U.  ).  M.  A..  D.  D.,   In- 
structor in  Elocution 1 873-  77 


BOARD    OF    INSTF?UCTION.    1895-6. 
William  H.  Wilder.  B.  A.,  M.  A.,  D,  D,,  (I.  W.  U.),  1303  North  Park  St. 

President  and  Professor  of  Ethics  and  Metaphysics. 

Robert  O.  Graham,  B.  A.,  M.  A.  (Amherst),  Ph.  D.  (J.  H.  U.),  1  108 
North  East  St. 

Isaac  Funk  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Geology. 
Dean  o'  Non-resident  Department. 


Robert   B.   Steele.  B.  A..  M.   A.   (Wis.  U.),  Ph.  D.  U.  H.  U.;.    1  108 

North  McLean  St. 

Professor  of  Latin. 

/^Morton  J.  Elrod.  B.  A..  M.  A.  (Simpson).  513  East  Chestnut  St. 

Professor  of  Biology  and  Physics.    Curator  of  Museum. 

Wilbert  Ferguson.  B.  A..  M.  A.  (O.  W.  U.).  1305  Nort  East  St. 

Professor  of  Greelc. 
Secretary  of  the  Faculty. 

Melvin   P.  .Lackland,   B.  A.,   M.   A.,   (I.  W.   U.i,  B.  D.  (Garrett ).  9 12 
North  Madison  St. 

Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Astronomy. 

M.  Luella  Denman,  A.  B.  (Mich.  U.),  408   East  Walnut  St. 

Charles  Cramp  Professor  of  Belles  Lettres. 

Clarence  E.  Snyder,  B.  A.  (I.  W.  U.),  1508  Franklin  Ave. 

Instructor  in  French  and  German. 

Delmar  D.  Darrah,  M.  S.  (I.  W.  U.).  602  East  Front  St. 

Professor  of  Elocution. 
Director  of  Physical  Culture. 

Calvin  W.  Green,  B.  A.,  M.  A.  (O.  W.  U.),  1212  North  East  St. 

Principal  of  Preparatory  School. 

Lyde  R.  Porter,  407  East  Front  St. 

Assistant  in  Preparatory  School. 

Martha  Matheny,  B.  S.  (I.  W.  U.),  Normal. 

Assistant  in  Preparatory  School. 

Charles  Adams.  B.  S.  (I.  W.  U.),  808  East  Empire  St. 

Assistant  in  Biology. 

*Sain  Wehy.B.  A.,M.  A.,(I.  W.U.;.LL.  B. (Yale). 612  East  Grove  St. 

Political  Science. 

*W.  A.  Heidel,   B.  A.   (Cen.   Mo.),   M.  A.,  Ph.  D.  (Chicago  U.).  Chi- 
cago, 111. 

Pedagogics. 


*Additional  Examiners  in  the  Non-resident  Department. 


160 


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152  Bloor  St.  West. 
12  College  Road. 


•Rev.  T.  M.  Macintyre.  M.  A..  Ph.  D.. 

Toron'.o.  Canada. 

*Rev.  Jos.  Finnemore.  M.  A..  Ph.  D.. 

Brighton.   England. 

Owen  T.  Reeves.  B.  A..  M.  A.  (O.  W.  U.).  LL.  D.  (1.  W.  U.), 

306  West  Chestnut  St. 

Dean  of  College  of  Law.     Equity  Jurisprudence.  Evidence.  Torts. 
and  Constitutional  L^w. 

Reuben  M.  Benjamin.  B.  A..  M.  A.  (Amherst),  LL.  D.  (I.  W.  U.). 

510  East  Grove  St. 

Elementary  Law.  Real  Property,  and  Criminal  Law. 

John  J.  Morrissey.  LL.  B.  (L  W.  U.),  909  North  West  St 

Common  Law  and  Equity  Pleading. 

Jacob  P.  Lindiey.  B.  S.  (Ind.  S.  U.i.  LL.  B.  (L  W.  U.). 

510  East  Locust  St. 

Contracts. 

Judge  Colostin  D.  Myers.  LL.  B.  (Mich.  U.),         213  East  Grove  St., 

Practice. 

Roliand  A.  Russell.  B.  A.,  M.  A..  LL.  B.  (I.  W.  U.;, 

509  East  Mulberry  St. 

Elementary  Law. 
LECTURERS    COLLEGE    OF    LAW. 

Hon.  John  M.  Scott.  LL.  D.  (I.  W.  U.). 

Late  Chief  Justice  of  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois. 


Hon.  Lawrence  Weldon.  LL.  D.  (I.  W.  U.), 

Judge  of  the  United  States  Couii  of  CLims. 


419  North  Main  St. 
427  North  Main  St. 


Oliver  R.  Skinner. 
Mrs.  John  R.  Gray, 

Joint  Directors  of  the  College  of  Music. 

Piano,  Theory.  Harmony,  Counterpoint,  Canon  and  Fugue,  Composition, 

Analysis,  History  of  Music,  and  Pipe  Organ. 

ASSISTANTS. 

Miss  Katharine  Young.  427  North  Main  St. 

Piano,  Harmony  and  Reed  Organ. 

Miss  Kate  Sherwood.  427  North  Main  St. 

Piano,  Haimony,  Counterpoint. 

Miss  Julia  Tool,  427  North   Main  St. 

Piano,  Harmony,  Counterpoint. 

Miss  May  Skinner,  419  North   Main  St. 

Piano. 

Miss  Farie  D.  Stevick,  419  North  Main  St. 

Principal  of  Vocal  Department. 

Lynn  E.  Hersey,  419  North  Main  St. 

Violin. 


Oscar  L.  Wilson,  Ph.  C,  Ph.  B., 

Dean  of  the  College  of  Arts. 


516  North  Main  St. 


'Additional  Examiners  in  Non-resident  Department. 


The  Alum/ni  Association. 


Upon  its  alumni  any  university  must  finally  largely  depend  for  its 
support  and  development.  Without  their  influence  no  college  can 
justify  its  right  to  live  and  enforce  its  claims  for  the  benefactions  of  the 
philanthropic.     The  first  efforts  toward  the  organization  of  the  alumni  of 

the   university   were   made  in 


1863, and  HarveyC.  DeMotte. 
of  the  class  of  1861,  and  pro- 
fessor of  mathematics,  was  the 
prime  mover.  In  the  first  issue 
of  the  Alumni  Journal,  the  of- 
ficial organ  of  the  association, 
established  and  edited  for 
seven  years  by  Dr.  DeMotte 
and  Dr.  Potter,  we  get  a 
glimpse  of  the  beginning: 

"  During  the  spring  of  1863, 
after  some  formal  deliberation 
in  the  faculty  of  the  univer- 
sity, it  was  determined  to  hold 
a  meeting  of  all  regular  and 
honorary  alumni  during  com- 
mencement week,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  organizing  an  alumni 
association.  Accordingly, 
Rev.  W.  F.  Short,  the  oldest 
living  graduate,  was  requested 
to  deliver  an  address  to  the  proposed  meeting 


WILLIAM    B.   MERRILL. 


"The  address  was  delivered  in  the  M.  E.  church  (the  present 
Leader  building),  Tuesday  evening,  July  1,  after  which  the  few  alumni 
present  held  a  short  conference,  which  resulted  in  the  organization  of 
the  Alumni  Society  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  P.  Warner 
was  chosen  president;  H.  C.  DeMotte,  secretary;  Dr.  E.  R.  Roe.  D. 
Wilkins,  and  Dr.  0.  S.  Munsell,  executive  committee;  H.  C.  DeMotte. 
P.  Warner,  and  D.  Wilkins  were  appointed  a  committee  on  constitu- 
tion." 

'•  At  the  annual  meeting  held 
June  19,  1867.  a  new  and  very 
pleasing  addition  was  made  to  the 
usual  program.  After  the  address 
by  W.  D.  H.  Young,  and  the 
reading  of  the  memoirs  of  two 
departed  members,  supper  was 
announced,  whereupon  all  who 
were  fortunate  enough  to  possess 
the  necessary  ticket  of  admission, 
assembled  at  the  Ashley  House. 
Here  the  hospitable  host,  General 
G.  A.  Smith,  under  the  direction 
of  the  committee,  had  made  ar- 
rangement for  their  friends.  'All 
went  merry  as  a  marriage  bell.' 
and  at  a  late  hour  friends  parted 
with  higher  hopes  and  stronger 
determination  for  another  year  of   earnest  toil  and  successful  labor." 


RALPH    F.   POTTER. 


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HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD, 


The  annual  meeting  of  the  association  has  become  ons  of  the 
chief  interests  of  the  visiting  as  well  as  resident  graduates,  and  in  these 
meetings  the  banquet  is  increasingly  prominent.  Of  the  resident  mem- 
bers Doctors  DeMotte  and  Taylor,  Harry  G.  Reeves,  Lecnidas  H. 
Kerrick.  George  L.  Hutchin  and  Sain  Welty  have  been  especially  active 
and  efficient.  The  officers  for  the  current  year  will  be  no  less  able  to 
direct  the  affairs  of  the  association.     They  are  : 

George  L.  Hutchin.  President. 

Grace  Loudon.  Vice-President. 


Henry  0.  Stone,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

Henry  0  Stone,  Henry  Kerrick,  William  B.  Merrill,  George  L. 
Hutchin  and  Ralph  F.  Potter  constitute  the  executive  committee. 

That  the  Association  may  be  most  highly  efficient,  frequent  com- 
munications from  the  graduates  are  solicited  relating  to  changes  and 
successes  in  profession,  occupation  and  residence;  also  information  that 
will  enable  the  university  to  correct  any  errors  which  occur  in  this  pub- 
lication as  to  name,  address,  occupation  or  profession  and  titles.  Such 
communications  should  be  addressed  to  the  Alumni  Association  in  the 
care  of  the  university. 


Alumni  Record. 


Class  of    1853. 

1.  James  H.  Barger.  B.  A. 

Clergyman:  Illinois  Annual  Conference.    Died  October  31 ,  1861. 

Class  of    1854. 

2.  William  Fletcher  Short.  B.  A.     Jacksonville.  Illinois. 

M.  A.  (McKendree  College).  1879;  S.  T.  D.  (Ohio  Wesleyan 
University);  clergyman;  Illinois  Conference;  served  one  term  as 
Presiding  Elder  of  the  Jacksonville  District;  member  of  the 
General  Conference  in  1880;  president  and  manager  of  the 
Illinois  Female  College,  1875  to  1893,  when  he  was  appointed 
by  Governor  Altgeld  superintendent  of  the  Asylum  for  the  Blind 
at  Jacksonville,  Illinois.     See  page  111. 

Class  of    1861. 

3.  Harvey  Clelland  DeMotte.  B.  S..  M.  A..  Ph.  D.  (Syracuse).  1883. 

Bloomington.  Illinois. 

1862.  First  Lieutenant  Company  G,  68th  Illinois  Volunteers; 
1862-1884,  Professor  of  Mathematics  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity; 1884-1887,  President  Chaddock  College,  Quincy,  Illinois; 
1887-1894,  superintendent  Soldiers"  Orphans'  Home,  Normal. 
Illinois;  1895,  Secretary  of  the  Central  Union  Building  and  Loan 
Association,  Bloomiington,  Illinois.  Married  Sara  I.  Kern  in 
1864.  One  child,  Clara,  now  a  junior  in  the  University.  See 
page  85. 


Class  of    1861. 

4.  Peter  Warner.  B.  S.      La  Fayette,  Illinois. 

Clergyman;  Central  Illinois  Conference,  supernumerary. 

Class  of    1862. 

5.  William  C.  Adams.  B.  S. 

Teacher;  deceased. 

6.  Henry  W.  Boyd.  B.  S.,  M.  A. 

M.  D.  (Rush  Medical  College) ;   Professor  Rush   Medical  Col- 
lege; died  February  15,  1893. 

7.  H.  N.  Howell.  B.  S. 

Clergyman;  died  January  25.  1871. 

Class  of    1863. 

8.  Hiram  N.  Ayers,  B.  S. 

Clergyman;  died  August  4.  1870. 

9.  John  V.  Baumann.  B.  S. 

Clergyman;    Illinois   Conference;    died    July    17.    1867.      See 
page  1  14. 

10.     William  T.  Collins,  B.  S.      167  Dearborn  St..  Chicago.  Illinois. 

Lawyer;  Secretary  of  the  Electric  Light  Company. 


164 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD. 


Class  of  1863. 

11.  James  S.  Millikin.  B.  A..  M.  A.     Phillipstown.  Illinois. 
Clergyman;  Southern  Illinois  Conference. 

Class  of   1864. 

12.  George  W.  Barton.  B.  S..  M.  S.     Saybrook.  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (Chicago  Medical  College);  practicing  physician: 
deceased. 

13.  James  T.  Hoblit.  B.  S.      Lincoln.  Illinois. 

LL.  B.  <  University.  Albany.  New  York);  City  Attorney.  Lincoln. 
Illinois.  1867-1869;  County  Clerk  Logan  County.  1859;  States 
Attorney  1876;  County  Judge  1886:  President  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank.  Lincoln.  Illinois:  member  of  the  law  firm  of  James 
T.  and  F.  M.  Hoblit. 

14.  Martin  Akers  Lapham.  B.  S.,  B.  A.     Danville.  Illinois. 

1864-1866.   tutor  in  Illinois  Wesleyan  University;   merchant. 

15.  Joseph  F.  Pancake.  B.  S..  M.  S.     Scott  City,  Kansas. 

Lawyer;  1863-1891.  Bloomington.  Illinois;  now  a  member  of 
the  bar  in  Scott  City.  Kansas;  member  of  the  Legislature  of 
Kansas. 

16.  James  W.  Warfield.  B.  S..  M.  S.     University  Place.  Nebraska. 

Clergyman;  1864  74.  Illinois  Conference:  Nebraska  Confer- 
ence. 

Class  of   1865. 

17.  Joseph  A.  Glenn.  B.  S.     Present  address  unknown. 


18.  John  S.  Holbert,  B.  S.     Ottawa.  Illinois. 

Lawyer. 

19.  Joseph  L.  Kitchen.  B.  S.     Wyanet,  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (  Rush  Medical  College):  physician. 

20.  William  D.  H.  Young,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

B.  D.  (Garrett  Biblical  Institute):  Clergyman,  Central  Illinois 
Conference:  Vice-President  Quincy  College,  Quincy,  Illinois; 
President  Bloomington  College,  Bloomington,  Tennessee. 

Class  of    1866. 

21.  John  W.  Boggess,  B.  S.,  Collison,  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (Chicago  Medical  College);  County  Physician,  Vermilion 
County,  Illinois. 

22.  Leonidas  H.  Kerrick,  B.  S.,  M.  S.       Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Lawyer.     See  page  111. 
Martin  Akers  Lapham.  B.  A.     See  No.  14. 
Clergyman ;  deceased. 

23.  J.  H.  Martin,  B.  A. 

Clergyman. 

24.  Harry  Gray  Reeves,  B.  S.,  Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Lawyer:  Secretary  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University.     Seepage  119. 

25.  William  Newton  Rutledge.  B.  A.,  M.  A..  Barry,  Illinois. 

B.  D.  (Garrett  Biblical  Institute);  Clergyman  Illinois  Conference 

26.  Edwin  Wyatt  Hamilton,  B.  S.,  Fort  Scott,  Kansas. 

Lawyer. 


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Class  of  1867. 

27.     Andrew  Jackson  Banta.  B.  S..  Washington  County,  Kansas. 

Lawyer;  County  Judge:  deceased. 

28      Abram  Epler  Beggs,  B.  S.     922  Cherry  St..   Kansas  City,  Mo. 

Sole  manager  of  the  purchasing  department  of  Armour  &  Co.  at 
Kansas  City. 

29.  David   Madison   Harris.    B.  A.,  M.  A.      1414    Lucas   Place.  St. 

Louis.  Missouri. 

Ph.  D.  1878;  D.  D.  (Cumberland  University)  1882;  Professor 
of  Natural  Science.  Lincoln  University,  from  1868  to  1870; 
Professor  of  Greek  and  Latin  in  same  institution  from  1871  to 
1883;  Editor-in-Chief  of  the  Cumberland  Presbyterian,  pub- 
lished in  Nashville,  Tennessee,  1883-1891  ;  editor  and  proprietor 
of  the  St.  Louis  Observer.     See  page  1  17. 

30.  Edwin  Morris  Johnson,  B.  S.      Pontiac.  Illinois. 

Laywer,  journalist  and  editor. 

31.  William  M.  Sedore.  B.  S.      Plainsville,  Kansas. 

Clergyman,  Kansas  Conference. 

32.  Carey  S.  Temple,  B.  S.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

Commission  merchant. 

33.  John  F.  Winter,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Lawyer;  member  of  the  Illinois  Legislature;  Counsel  at  Rotter- 
dam during  administration  of  President  Harrison. 

Class  of  1868. 

34      Stamper  Q.  Davidson.  B.  S.,  B.  A. 
Teacher:  deceased. 


35.  William  James  Dyckes,  B.  S,     Lewistown,  Illinois. 

Lawyer. 

36.  B.  Valentine  Denning,  B.  S.      Normal,  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Central  Illinois  Conference. 

37.  Joseph  Wilson  Fifer.  B.  S.,  LL,  D.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Lawyer;  1871,  elected  corporate  counsel,  city  of  Bloomington; 
1872,  elected  State's  Attorney,  McLean  County:  1880-1884. 
State  Senator;  1883-1892,  Governor  of  the  State  of  Illinois;  in 
1892  received  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  (Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity).    See  page  1  13. 

Class  of    1868. 

38      Joseph  Crane  Hartzell,  B.  A. 

M    A..  D.  D.  (Allegheny  College):  clergyman.     See  page  117. 

39.  Louis  Walter  Keplinger,  B.  S.      Kansas  City.  Kansas, 

Lawyer. 

40.  Andrew  Stickle  Wilson.  B,  S.     Sioux  City.  Iowa. 

Lawyer;  Judge  District  Court.     See  page  1  14. 
Class  of    1869. 

41.  Orlando  W.  Aldrich.  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Columbus.  Ohio. 

Ph.  D.,  D.  C.  L..  1881,  LL.  D.  -Albert  University  i ;  Professor 
Law  School.  Ohio  State  University.     See  page  122. 

42.  Charles  Atherton.  B.  A.,  M,  A. 

Clergyman. 

43.  Rhynaldo  J.  Brooks.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

Lawyer  and  journalist:  Chicago  Evening  Post. 

44.  William  R.  Blackwell.  B.  A..  M.  A.      Denver.  Colorado. 

Clergyman.  Central  Illinois  Conference. 


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Class   of    1869. 

45.  Joseph  R.  Cole.  B.  S.     Decatur  St..  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Author  and  teacher. 

46.  David  N.  Caldwell.  B.  S.     Wellington,  Kansas. 

Lawyer. 

47.  Martin  L.  Keplinger.  B.  S..  M.  S.     Carlinville,  Illinois. 

Lawyer:  Public  Administrator  for  Macoupin  County,  1889-1893, 
by  appointment  of  Governor  Fifer:  in  1880  married  Mollie  E. 
Ayers.  of  Danvers. 

48.  Robert  E.  Moore.  B.  A..  M.  A.      Lincoln,  Nebraska. 

Son  of  Rev.  W.  H.  H.  Moore,  of  the  Illinois  Conference;  mem- 
ber of  the  Nebraska  State  Legislature  three  separate  terms; 
Mayor  of  the  city  of  Lincoln;  now  President  of  the  Security  In- 
vestment Company.     Seepage  115. 

49.  Adolphus  G.  Scott.  B.  S.     318  Sixty-third  St..  Chicago.  Illinois. 

Lawyer  and  loan  broker.  Lincoln,  Nebraska;  Supeiintendent 
Public  instruction  one  term;  Judge  Lancaster  County,  Kansas; 
practicing  law. 

50.  James  B.  Taylor,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  New  York.);  Professor 
Natural  Science.  Illinois  Wesleyan  University;  studied  in  the 
University.  Leipsic.  Germany.  1877-1878;  practicing  physician. 
See  page  79. 

51.  Micajah  Van  Winkle.  B.  S.     Waverly.  Illinois. 

Farmer. 

52.  Louis  C.  Wagner.  B.  S..  M.  S.     Nicholasville.  Kentucky. 

M.  D.  CBell  Hospital  Medical  College.   New  York  i ;  physician. 


Class  of   1870. 

53.  Melchoir  Auer,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Rossville,  Illinois. 

B.  D.  (Garrett  Biblical  Institute);  clergyman,  Illinois  Conference. 

54.  Francis  Marion  Bishop.  B.  S.,  M.  A.     Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Assayer  and  chemist;   Professor  in  Deseret  College. 

55.  Henry  C.  Birch,  B.  A.,  M.  A,      Millersburg,  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Central  Illinois  Conference. 

56.  George  H.  McCracken,  B.  A.     San  Jose,  California. 

B.  D.  (  Drew  Theological  Seminary)  1878;  clergymen.  Califor- 
nia Conference. 

57.  Parmenis  Smith.  B.  S.      Denver,  Colorado. 

Clergyman.  Central  Illinois  Conference;  real  estate  dealer. 
Class  of    1871. 

58.  Richard  W.  Barger,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Des  Moines,  Iowa. 

Lawyer. 

59.  Alexander  C.  Byerly,  B.  A.,  M.  A. 

D.  D.  1894;  clergyman,  Illinois  Conference;  has  filled  pulpits  in 
Urbana,  Quincy  and  Springfield;  Presiding  Elder  of  the  Cham- 
paign District.     Seepage  115. 

60.  John  W.  Denning,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Mazon,  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Central  Illinois  Conference. 

61.  Marcus  L.  Fullinwider.  B.  A..  M.  A.       Eldorado,  Kansas. 

Physician.     See  page  1  18. 

62.  William  F.  Graves,  B.  A.,  M.  A. 

Lawyer  and   loan  broker.  St.  Paul,  Minnesota;  professor  in  the 


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Illinois  Wesleyan  University;  professor  of  Latin  in  Iowa  Uni- 
versity. 

63.  James  A.  Kelley,  B.  S.     California. 

Broker. 

64.  Robert  E.  McClelland.   B.  S.     Williamsville,  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (  Rush  Medical  College);  physician. 

65.  James  A.  Northrup.  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Watseka,  Illinois. 

B.  D.  (Garrett  Biblical  Institute);  clergyman,  Central  Illinois 
Conference;  seven  years  as  a  missionary  in  India. 

66.  Robert  B.  Porter.  B.  A..  M.  A. 

Lawyer;  deceased. 

67.  Lucius  A.  Vasey,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      LeRoy,  Illinois. 

Farmer;  candidate  for  the  Legislature  on  the  Prohibition  ticket 
in  1892. 

68.  J.  Vincent  Willis.  B.  A..  M.  A. 

Clergyman  and  journalist. 

69.  Thomas  R.  Wiley.  B.  S.     Gibson  City.  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (  Rush  Medical  College  )  ;  president  National  Building 
and  Loan  Association ;  president  Gibson  Ironworks;  president 
Gibson  Land  Company;  local  surgeon  Illinois  Central  Railway 
Company;  medical  examiner  for  several  life  insurance  com- 
panies. 

Class  of    1872. 

70.  William  Eddy  Barnes,   B.  S.     St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

Manager  and  editor  Age  of  Steel.     See  page  128. 


71.  James  Albert  Johnson,   B.  A..  M.  A.     Oakland.  California. 

Lawyer. 

72.  George  Abram  Martin,  B.  S. 

Deceased. 

73.  Francis  Edwin  Munsell,  B.  S.     Council  Grove,  Kansas. 

Son  of  President  0.  S.  Munsell;  farmer. 

74.  Hannah  1.  Shur,  B.  S.,  M.  S.      El  Paso.  Illinois. 

First  woman  graduate  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University;  first 
President  W.  C.  T.  U.  of  the  Ninth  Illinois  District;  an  active 
worker  in  the  church. 

75.  William  Shamburg  Wilson,  B.  A.      Present  address  unknown. 

Teacher. 

Class  of    1873. 

76.  William  H.  Booth.  B.  S.     Clinton.   Illinois. 

Lawyer;  for  twelve  years  State's  Attorney,  De  Witt  County. 

77.  Charles  A.  Hazenwinkle.  B.  A..  M.  A.      Hall   Beach.  Cape   May, 

New  Jersey. 

Actor. 

78.  James  W,  Holder,  B.  S.     Chenoa,  Illinois. 

Banker  and  stock  dealer, 

79.  Alexander  H.  Davies,  B.  A. 

Son  of  Richard  N.  Davies,  of  the  Illinois  Conference;  lawyer; 
died  at  Bakersville.  California.  May  24.  1875. 

80.  George  W.  Crum,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Arenzville,  Illinois.  ' 

B.  S.  (Adrian  College);  physician. 


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81.  Charles  H.  Long,  B.  S..  M.  S.     Pontiac.  Illinois. 

Chicago  M.  D.  (Homeopathic  College);  three  terms  Coroner 
Livingston  County.  Illinois:  United  States  Pension  Examiner 
1879-1886:  superintendent  M.  E.  Sunday  School  fifteen  years: 
practicing  physician.     Seepage  120. 

82.  John  E.  Scott,  B.  S.     Indianapolis.  Indiana. 

Lawyer.     Seepage  121. 

83.  Llewellyn  David  Seward.  B.  S.     St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

Lawyer. 

84.  William  H.  Wilder,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference;  Presiding  Elder  1884-1888; 
1883.  delegate  to  General  Conference;  1888,  President  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University;  d=,legate  Ganaral  Confernce.   1896. 

Class  of    1874. 

85.  John  T.  Ayers,  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Danvers,  Illinois. 

Farmer;  married  Hattie  Estes  in  1875. 
85.     Martha  Benjamin,  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Hudson,  IlliriDis. 
Died  March  1,  1885. 

87.  DeWitt  C.  Benjamin,  B.  A.     Hudson,  Illinois. 

Died  February  7.  1875. 

88.  James  M.  Blazer,  B.  S.     Macomb,  IlPnois. 

Lawyer. 

89.  Benjamin  Webb  Baker,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D. 

Principal  of  the  Grammar  School  of  the  Illinois  State  Normal 
in  1876;  member  of  the  Central  Illinois  Conference;  served  four 
years  as  Presiding  Elder  of  Streator  District;  from  1890  to  1893; 


Financial  Agent  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University;  1893, 
President  Chaddock  College,  Quincy,  Illinois.     See  page  1  16. 

90.  Marion  Victor  Crumbaker,  B.  A.,  M,  A.      Rock  Island,  Illinois. 

1895,  D  D.  (Chaddock  College);  clergyman.  Central  Illinois 
Conference.  Presiding  Elder  of  the  Rock  Island  District.  See 
page  122. 

91.  Marquis  L.  Grum,  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Virginia,  Illinois. 

Farmer. 

92.  Samuel  T.  Fullinwider,  B.  S.      Mechanicsburg,  Illinois, 

Farmer. 

93.  William  C.  Gilbreath,  B.  S.     Williamsville,  Illinois. 

Clerk  of  Iowa  State  Penitentiary. 

94.  Walter  H.  Graves,  B.  A.,  M.  A. 

Civil  engineer ;  1874- 1880  with  the  Powell  Exploration  Survey; 
1880-1889,  in  the  employ  of  the  Illinois  Central,  Wisconsin  Cen- 
tral, Chicago  &.  Northwestern  and  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Rail- 
way Companies;  did  extensive  work  in  building  irrigation  canals, 
Colorado;  1889-1891,  engaged  in  mining  surveys  in  Colorado, 
since  which  time  employed  as  superintendent  of  irrigation  by  the 
United  States  Indian  Bureau. 


95.     John  Moore,  B.  S.,  LL.  B. 
Lawyer  and  loan  broker. 


Lincoln,  Nebraska. 


96.  Kate  B.  Ross,  B   S.     Quincy,  Illinois. 

Teacher;  Professor  of  Elocution,  Hedding  College. 

97.  George  E.  Scrimger,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Danville,  Illinois. 

B.  D.  (Drew  Theological  Seminary)  ;    D.  D.  (Illinois  Wesleyan 
University,  1894,)  clergyman,  Illinois  Conference,  See  page  120. 


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98.  J.  0.  Shelland,  Ph.  B.      Address  unknown. 

Minister. 

99.  Albert  Walkley,  B.  A.      iVlanistee,  Micliigan. 

Clergyman,  Reformed  Protestant  Episcopal  Church:  lawyer. 

Class  of   1875. 

100.  James  0.  Applebee,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Cuba,  Illinois 

Graduated  from  National  School  of  Oratory.  Philadelphia,  1878; 
D.  D,  S.,  dental  departmant  of  the  Iowa  State  University;  dentist; 
married  Miss  Ella  Bowers,  1882. 

101.  Eli  P.  Adams.  B.  S.      Little  Falls.  P/innesota. 

Lawyer;   married  Miss  Emma  A.  Ross. 

102.  Richard  H.  Bosworth,  B.  A.,  M.  A. 

Clergyman.     See  page  1  18. 

103.  Thomas  1.  Coultas,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Indianapolis,  Indiana. 

Married  Miss  Angle  Morrison,  Bloomington,  Illinois,  in  1875; 
Pastor  of  Roberts  Park  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  See 
page  124. 

104.  James  W.  Coultas.  B.  A..  M.  A.     Streator,  Illinois. 

Teacher,  1884-92,  Clinton;  1892-93,  Havana;  1894,  Streator, 
Illinois. 

105.  Franc  H.  Cumming,  B.  A..  M,  A.     Streator,  Illinois. 

Ph.  D.,  1884;  clergyman.  Central  Illinois  Conference.  See 
page  124. 

106.  James  M.  Grant.  E.  A..  M.  A.      Labette.  Kansas. 

Tile  manufacturer. 


107.  Delia  Henry,  E.  S..  M.  S. 

Teacher;  has  taught  the  Grant  School,  west  of  Bloomington, 
since  1883. 

108.  Charles  S.  Ludlam.  B.  A.,  M.  A. 

Teacher.  Cape  May.  New  Jersey;  died  June.  1882. 

109.  George  P.  Meixell,  B.  A..  M.  A.      Pekin.  Illinois. 

LL.  B.;  practicing  law. 
1  10.     Allen  C.  Mason,  B.  S.     Tacoma.  Washington. 

Lawyer;  president  Mason,  Morgan  Loan  Co.;  in  1878  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Libbie  Lawrence,  Bloomington,  Illinois. 

111.     Augustine  Y.  Morris.  Ph.  B.     Troy.  Illinois. 

1  12.      May  Round,  B.  S.      Mansfield.  Illinois. 

Married  A.  T.  Abbott. 

113.  Joseph  A.  Smith.  B.  A..  M.  A.      Bryant,  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Illinois  Conference,  1875-76  ;  Colorado  Conference. 

114.  William  A.  Smith,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Jacksonville,  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Illinois  Conference  ;  delegate  to  the  General  Confer- 
ence, 1892;  married  Miss  Julia  Milrtiine.  1877.  Seepage  123. 

1  15.     Thomas  A.  Sterling.  B.  A..  M.  A.      Huron,  South  Dakota. 

Lawyer;  member  State  Constitutional  Convention  and  Senator. 
See  page  125. 

1  16.     Samuel  Van  Pelt.  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Onarga.  Illinois. 

D.  D.,  1891  ;  Professor  Elocution,  Illinois  Wesleyan  University: 
studied  in  the  School  of  Theology,  Boston,  Massachusetts: 
member  of  the  Central  Illinois  Conf'^rence:  1890.  President 
of  Grand  Prairie  Seminary:  married  Miss  Alice  B.  Ford.  1876. 
See  page  125. 


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HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD. 


Class  of   1876. 

1 17.     John  H.  Bennett.  B.  A. 

B.  D.  (Drew  Theological  Seminary);  clergyman:  died  in  1877, 

lie.     John  A.  Brooks.    B.  A..  M.  A.     24  Hull  St.,   Montgomery,  Ala- 
bama. 

1880-1883.  with  N.  C.  &  St.  L.  Ry.,  Nashville.  Tennessee: 
1883-1886.  Chief  Clerk  General  Passenger  and  Ticket  Depart- 
ment. F.  R.  &  S.  Ry.,  Jacksonville,  Florida;  1886  1896,  As- 
sistant General  Freight  Agent.  L.  &  N.  Ry. 

I  19.     Winslow  Evans.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Peoria,  Illinois. 

Ph.  D.  (  1880):  lawyer:  Judge  of  Peoria  County,  1886-1890, 

120.  Jacob  Wellington  Frizzelle,  B.  A,     Monmouth,  Illinois, 

M.  A.,  1879.  also  M.  A.  from  the  Northwestern  University; 
B.  D.  (Drew  Theological  Seminary):  clergyman:  Central  Illinois 
Conference.     See  page  152. 

121.  Josephine  Hall.  B.  S.     Placquemine,  Louisiana, 

Teacher;  1876-1879.  public  schools,  Gibson,  fllinois;  1879, 
married  James  McClure. 

122      George  L.  Hutchin,   B.  S.     Bloomingtcn,  Illinois, 

Journalist:  proprietor  and  publisher  of  the  Sunday  Eye,  See 
page  130. 

123.     Joseph  H.  Ketron,  B.  A..  M.  A,     Bloomingfon,  Tennessee, 

Teacher;  1876-1877,  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  Holsfori 
Seminary.  New  Market,  Tenn.;the  first  and  only  President  at 
Kingsley  Seminary.  Bloomington,  Tennessee,  elected  in  1877; 
delegate  to  the  General  Conference,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  in  1884.     See  page  132. 


124.  Mary  H.  Kuhl,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Springfield.  Illinois, 

Teacher  of  German  in  High  School,  Bloomington,  Illinois; 
studied  one  year  in  Germany;  taught  seven  years  in  Springfield 
High  School;  married  Prof.  William  Helmle,  superintendent 
City  schools,  Springfield,  Illinois,  July,  1893, 

125.  William  S.  Marquis,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Rock  Island,  Illinois, 

B.  D.  (Princeton);  D.  D,  (^Knox);  five  years  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  Minonk,  Illinois;  now  in  the  eleventh  year 
of  his  pastorate  at  Broadway  Presbyterian  church.  Rock  Island, 
Illinois:  chairman  of  Foreign  Missions,  Synod  of  Illinois.  See 
page  145. 

126.  Calvin  Rayburn,  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

LL.  B.:  Lawyer:  1876-77,  principal  of  the  High  School,  Shel- 
byville.  Illinois:  1878-79,  superintendent  of  schools,  Hillsboro, 
Illinois;  practicing  law;  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.     See  page  130, 

127.  Mary  B.  Rogers,  B.  S.     Peoria,  Illinois, 

1878,  married  Fred  B.  Tracy, 

128.  Byron  F.  Staymate.  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Clinton,  Illinois. 

Lawyer:  traveled  extensively  in  Mexico, 

129.  James  Oliver  Wilson,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Brooklyn,  New  York. 

B.  D.  (Drew  Theological  Seminary):  D.  D.  (Illinois  Wesleyan 
University);  clergyman  :  professor  of  Elocution,  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan University:  professor  of  Elocution.  Drew  Theological 
Seminary;  1891,  pastor  Simpson  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
Brooklyn,  New  York;  1895.  president  of  New  York  City 
Methodist  Preachers'  meeting.     See  page  126. 

130.  Henry  C.  Whiting,  M,  A,     Hackettstown,  New  Jersey. 

Ph.  D.;  clergyman. 


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Illinois. 
A.     Creston,  Iowa. 


Class  of   1877. 

131.  D.  M.  Armstrong,  B.  S. 

Teacher;  superintendent  of  schools,  Vermilion  County.  Illinois. 
Deceased. 

132.  DeWitt  C.  Corley,  B.  S.      Decatur,  Illinois. 

Lawyer;   married  Laura  Fulton,  1882. 

133.  Gilmore  Cunningham.  B.  S..  M.  S.      Indianola,  Illinois. 

Clergyman  Illinois  Conference. 

134.  Mary  F.  Etter,  B.  A..  M.  A. 

M.  D.,  1880;  died  at  Springfield, 

135.  Homer  Britten  Holcomb,  B.  A..  M. 

Merchant;    five   years  principal   of  the   High  School,  Wyanet. 
Illinois. 

136      Marquis  D.  Hornbeck,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Quincy,  Illinois. 

S.  T.  B.  (School  of  Theology),  Ph.  D.  (Denver  University); 
clergyman.  Colorado  Conference  ;  1  887-90.  president  Chaddock 
College;   married  Lydia  Kuhl  in  1879.    See  page  133. 

137.  Mary  F.  Kanaga,  B.  A..  M.  A.      Hutchinson.  Kansas. 

138.  Richard  W.  Kennedy,  B.  S.      Hull,  Illinois. 

Merchant;  principal  Plainsville  (Illinois)  school;  dealer  in 
farming  implements. 

139.  J.  H.  Logie,  B.  A.,  M.  A. 

B.  D.  (Drew  Theological  Seminary);   clergyman. 

140.  Robert  McKay,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     6518  Ellis  Ave..  Chicago,  Illinois. 

Teacher;  superintendent  schools,  Washington ;  Fairbury;  prin- 
cipal of  Preparatory  Department  and  Professor  of  Elocution, 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University;  Elgin  High  School ;  superintendent 


city  schools,  Burlington,  Iowa;   Blue   Island,  Illinois;  editor  of 
the  Interstate  School  Review.     See  page  128. 

141.  Joseph  F.  McNaught,  B.  S..  M.  S.     Seattle,  Washington. 

Lawyer.     Seepage  134. 

142.  John  H.  Merritt,  B.  S. 

Died,  1879. 

143.  James  M.  Miller.  B    A..  M.  A       Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Druggist. 

144.  Belle  Sterling,  B.  S..  M.  S.     Toulon.  Illinois. 

Teacher;  1880,  married  John  H.  Scott,  of  class  of  1880. 

145.  R.  B.  Welch,  B.  S.,     Topeka.  Kansas. 

M.  A.  (pro  merito).  1880;  lawyer;  married  Maggie  Hammond. 
1870.      See  page  131. 

146.  William   H.  Cline.  Ph.  B.      Bismarck.  Dakota. 

Clergymian.     See  page  152. 

147.  Abner  Gregory,  Ph.  B.     39  Salem  Road.  Brighton,  S.  W.,  Lon- 

don, England. 

Clergyman, 

148.  J.  H.  Robinson.  Ph.  B.     Cherry  Point,  Illinois. 

Class  of    1878. 

149.  Arthur  Johnson  Beavis.  B.  S.,  M.  S.      1333  Court  Place.  Denver, 

Colorado. 

Married  Miss  Carrie  Smith,  Peoria;  physician. 

150.  Joseph  Webster  Cornish,  B,  A. 

Clergym.an,  Minnesota  Conference;   married  Edna  Morrison,  of 
Bloomington,  Illinois. 


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HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD, 


151.     Charles  S.  H.  Dunn.  B.  A..  M.  A. 

B.  D.  (Drew  Theological  Seminary):  Ph.  D..  1884:  married 
Belle  Ryburn,  1878;  died  in  London.  England,  1894:  buried 
Bloomington.  Illinois. 

162.     S.  C.  Fultcn. 

Minister:  Financial  Agent  Syracuse  University  and  Wyoming 
Seminary. 


153. 


154. 


155. 


156. 


157. 


158. 


Santa    Barbara.  California. 


Richard  O.  Hickman.  B.  A..  M.  A. 
Teacher. 

Benjamin  F.  Hyde,  Ph.  B.     Englewood,  Illinois, 
Superannuated  member  Illinois  Conference. 

E.  S.  Janes.  B.  A.     Marysville,  Missouri, 
Lawyer.     See  page  141. 

Melvin  Porter  Lackland,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

B.  D.  (Garrett  Biblical  Institute) ;  clergyman,  Central  Illinois 
Conference;  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Illinois  Wesleyan 
University.     See  page  105 

Libbie  L.  Lawrence,  B.  A.     Tacoma,  Washington, 
Won  prize  essay;  married  Allen  C.  Mason,  class  of  1875. 

William  W.  Lindsley,  B.  S  ,  M.  S.     Havana,  Illinois. 

Teacher;  1879-1880,  Professor  Mathematics,  Central  Tennes- 
see College,  Nashville,  Tennesse;  1883-1887,  Professor  Mathe- 
matics, Adamsville  Institute. 

159.     Sylvester  Melvin,  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Greenfield,  Illinois. 

Teacher;  farmer;  Township  Collector;  married  Ida  L.  Strick- 
land. 


160.  John  Asbury  Motter.  B.  S..  M.  S.      Baldwin,  Kansas. 

Clergyman,  Kansas  Conference:  married  Anna  E.  Brown,  of 
Normal.     See  page  135. 

161.  Charles  W.  Parkinson,  B   A..  M,  A.     Vandalia,  Illinois. 

Teacher:  principal  of  schools  in  Illinois  and  Colorado;  superin- 
tendent public  schools,  Vandalia,  Illinois:  married  Miss  Wegetta 
Atkins  at  Carbondale. 

162.  William    H.   Pumphrey,    B,  A.,    M.  A.      Philadelphia,    Pennsyl- 

vania, 

Ph.  D.  (Philosophy,  Princeton.):  clergyman,  Presbyterian 
church, 

163.  Edward  William  Paul,  B,  S,,  M.  S,      Forest  City.  Illinois, 

M.  D.;  physician. 

164.  Herbert    Mitchel    Rollins,    B.   S.       60    Bryant    Ave.,  Chicago, 

Board  of  Trade, 

165.  Belle  Ryburn,  B.  S.,  M.  S.      Riverside,  California, 

Married  Charles  S.  H.  Dunn,  class  of  1878. 

166.  James    Alexander    Wakefield,    B.   S.,    M.   S.       Cedar   Rapids, 

Iowa. 

Lawyer. 

167.  James   Almeday  Willis,  B.  S.,  M.  S,     417   Locust  St.,  Phila- 

delphia, Pennsylvania, 

Manufacturer;  Heating  and  Ventilating  Company,  of  Smead, 
Wills  &  Co.,  Philadelphia  and  Pittsburg. 

168.  Same  as  number  154;  repeated  by  mistake. 


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Class  Of  1879. 

16^.      Henry  Moses  Boyce,  B.  A.      Broadalbin,  New  York> 
Clergyman.  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

170.  Mary  E.  Bradford.  B.  A..  M^  A.     Tabriz,  Persia. 

M.  D.  (Women's  Medical  College,  Chicago):  one  year  in  New 
England  Hospital  for  Women,  Boston:  now  a  medical  mission- 
ary, Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign   Missions.     See  page  150, 

171.  Horatio  Grimes  Bent,  B.  S.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

LL.  B.:  1884-91.  professor  in  Law  Department  Illinois  Wes- 
leyan  University:  member  of  Board  of  Education:  married  Miss 
Ada  Crist.     See  page  143. 

172.  Richard  Crews,  B,  A.,  M.  A.     Geneseo.  Illinois, 

Clergyman,  Central  Illinois  Conference,     Seepage  136. 

173.  George  Millard  Cummings.  B.  A, 

Clergyman:  died,  1882.  San  Antonio,  Texas, 

174.  Newell  D,  Gilbert,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Austin,  Illinois, 

Teacher:  superintendent   of  schools:   Clifton,    Illinois,    1878-82; 
Utica,  1882-84:   Maywood,  1884-87:  Austin,  1887-96. 

175.  Stephen  Goldsmith,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Odelle,  Nebraska. 

B.  D.  (Drew  Theological  Seminary):  Clergyman,  Illinois  Con- 
ference. 

176.  Josephine  Giddings,  B.  A.,  M,  A.     Tiskilwa,  Illinois. 

Married  Rev.  J,  F.  James,  Central  Illinois  Conference, 

177.  Lydia  Melinda  Kuhl,  B.  A.,  M.  A. 

Teacher:  taught  German  and  Latin  in  Danville  Seminary, 
1884-87:  Professor  of  German  and  Latin,  Chaddock  College; 
married  Rev.  Marquis  D,  Hornbeck,  class  of  1877. 


178.  Elizabeth  M.  Moore,  B.  S.     Alhambra.  Colorado. 

Teacher. 

179.  Francis  Mueller,  Jr.,  B.  S.     Spokane  Falls.  Washington. 

Musician:  dean  of  College  of  Music  (  I,  W.  U.  )\  Dean  of  Col- 
lege of  Music,  Spokane  Falls. 

180.  Martha  Alice  Munsell,  B.  S.,  M.  S      Mechanicsburg,  Illinois. 

Teacher:  married  W.  S.  Bullard. 

181.  Frank  C.  Read.  B.  A.,  M,  A. 

Journalist,  1882-1885:  General  Secretary  Y.  M.  C.  A..  Bloom' 
ington,  Illinois,  1885-1886:  clergyman,  Illinois  Conference 
since  1886, 

182.  Manford  J.  Ricks,  B.  S.     Topeka,  Kansas. 

Journalist:  died  March,  1882. 

183.  Charles  Orlando  Strickland   B.  S..  M.  S,     Chicago.  Illinois. 

M.   D.:   taught   two   years   in   Preparatory   Department  of  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  University:  physician:  died    December.    1891. 

184.  Chelius  Franklin  Tobey,  B,  A, 

Teacher:  clergyman,  Illinois  Conference:  student  Garrett  Bib- 
lical Institute. 

185.  Samuel  Miller  Ware,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Omaha.  Nebraska. 

B  D.  (McCormick  Theological  Seminary):  D.  D.,  (University 
of  Omaha  i :  clergyman :  pastor  of  Second  Presbyterian  church. 
See  page  133. 

186.  David  Gay.  Ph.  B.     Payson.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference:  Presiding  Elder,  One  term, 
Mattoon  District:  delegate  to  General  Conference.  1892.  from 
Austin.  Texas. 


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Class  of    1880. 

187.  Fremont  Charles  Blandin.  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Streator.  Illinois. 

LL.  B.:  lawyer. 

188.  Charles  Wesley  Campbell,  Ph.  B. 

189.  Martin  Luther  Curl,  Ph.  B. 

Clergyman  Little  Rock  University:  member  of  the  General 
Conference  of  1894:  Presiding  Elder  Little  Rock  District. 
Arkansas. 

190.  John  Alonzo  Fisher.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Baltimore,  Maryland. 

Journalist:  assistant  editor  of  the  Advance:  deceased. 

191.  John    Gallagher.    Ph.    B.,  M.   A.     Ph.   D.,    1889:   clergyman, 

Nebraska  Conference :  secretary  of  his  conference:  Presiding 
Elder  one  term.     See  page  145. 

192.  George  Dsrwin  King.  B.  A,,  M.  A.     Twin  Bridges,  Montana. 

Clergyman. 

193.  Anza  Letts  Minear.  B.  S..  M.  S.     Topeka.  Kansas. 

Married  George  Music:  died  in  Chicago,  1889. 

194.  Robert  W.  r'atterson.  B.  A..  M.  A.     La  Junta.  Colorado. 

Farmer  ;ind  stock  raiser:  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank. 

195.  Jennie  May  Ryburn,  B.  A.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

196.  John  Harcen  Scott,  B.  A,,  M.  A. 

B.  D.  (Drew  Theological  Seminary):  clergyman,  Central 
Illinois  Conference. 

197.  Joseph  Smiley  Sagaser.  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (Jefferson  Medical  College.  Philadelphia, j  Professor 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons. 


198.  Margaret  Annetta  Sudduth,  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

Journalist:  editor  Union  Signal.     See  page  138. 

199.  Mary  Lenore  Van  Pelt,  B.  L.      Ravenswood,  Illinois. 

Student  of  French.  German  and  music,  Boston  University; 
taught  in  Bloomington  schools:  married  A.  Dupuy. 

Class  of   1881. 

200.  Kate  Conant  Crego.  B    S.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Teacher:  married  George  House. 

201.  James  Otis  Denning,  B.  A. 

Student  in  the  Boston  School  of  Theology:  1888-1896,  a  mis- 
sionary of  the  M.  E.  church  in  Narsing  Phur,  Central  Prov- 
ince, India:   married  Miss  M.  W.  Beahm.  Fairfield,  Illinois. 

202.  Clara  May  Funk,  B.  S.,  M.  S.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Married  F.  D.  Humphreys,  wholesale  merchant. 

203.  David  H.  Gillan,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Fresno.  California. 

Clergyman:  pastor  of  the  M.  E.  church. 

204.  Laura  Betta  Marquis.  B.  S. 

Died  at  her  home  in  Bloomington,  March  20,  1880. 

205.  Nelson  Kinyon  McCormick.  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Normal,  Illinois, 

M.  D.  (Chicago  Medical  College  i  :  married  Mary  Sudduth  in 
1889;  physician. 

206.  John  Allen  Sterling.  B.  A..  M    A.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Lawyer:  chairman  of  the  County  Republican  Central  Com- 
mittee, 1888-1890;  State's  Attorney  since  1892:  is  a  member 
of  the  law  firm  of  Welty  &  Sterling.     See  page  138. 


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207.  Arthur  Luther  Stickle.  B   A.     Eureka.  Kansas. 

Teacher. 

208.  Homer  J.  Smith.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Butler.  Pennsylvania. 

Ph.  D.:  clergyman. 

209.  Sain  Welty,  B.  A  .  M.  A.     Bloomington,  Illinois, 

LL.  B.  (Yale  Law  School ) ;  mem.ber  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University;  also  Examiner  in  Political 
Science;  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Welty  &.  Sterling:  mar- 
ried Gertrude  Bell  in  1879.     See  page  137. 

210.  Margaretta  W.  Beahm     Ph.  B.      Narsing  Phur.  Central    Prov- 

ince, India. 

Married  Rev.  J.  0.  Denning,  class  of  1881. 

211.  John  Davis  Bloodgood.     Waverly.  New  York. 

Clergyman;  author  of  ••  Personal  Reminiscences  of  the  War;'" 
pastor  of  the  M.  E.  church. 

212.  Henry  Thomas  Dawson,  Ph.  B,      Dudley.  Massachusetts, 

Ph.  D..  1883,  Physics;  teacher. 

Class  of    1882. 

213.  Edward  Everett  Donnelly,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

LL.  B,,  1885;  lawyer;  married  Miss  Klopenburg,  of  Spring- 
field, in  1890. 

214.  Lyman  Covell  Floyd.  Ph.  B,,  M.  A.     Scranton,  Pennsylvania, 

Ph.  D..  1888;  clergyman. 

215.  James  Allen  Fullinwider.  B.  S..    507  West  Monroe  St.,  Chicago. 

Illinois. 

LL.  B,  (Michigan  University);  lawyer, 


216.  Alice  Harpole,  B.  S.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

217.  William  Anwyl  Jones.  B.  S.      Bloomington.  iHinols. 

General  secretary  Y.  M.  C  A..  Brazil,  Indiana;  convention 
poet  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  National  Convention.  Nashville. 
Tennessee;  city  editor  of  the  Daily  Republican  Journal,  of 
Moline.   Illinois;  1896,  city  editor  Daily   Leader.  Bloomington. 

Illinois. 

218.  William  Spencer  Ruby.  B.  A..  M.  A, 

Deceased. 

219.  Francis  Newton   Thorpe.   Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      North    East,   Pennsyl- 

vania. 

Ph.  D.:  teacher;  author, 

220.  John  Robert  Van  Pelt,  B.  A..  M.  A,     University  Park.    Denver. 

Colorado. 

S  T.  B..  Ph.  D.  (Boston  University):  clergyman.  Illinois  Con- 
ference; taught  one  year  in  Illinois  Wesleyan  University;  stu- 
dent in  Germany;  1893.  Professor  of  History  and  Systematic 
Theology.  Denver  University;  married  Bishop  Warren's  daugh- 
ter in  1893, 

Class  of    1883, 

221.  Dexter  W.  Corley.  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Sioux  City,  Iowa, 

Employed  in  the  office  of  N.  G.  Life  Insurance  Company, 

222.  George  E.  Gerowe,  Ph.  B, 

Teacher;  died  May  30.  1893.  while  principal  of  the  High 
School,  Davenport,  Nebraska. 

223.  Calvin  W.  Hickman,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Topeka.  Kansas. 

Took  law  course  at  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  was  admitted  to  the 


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bar:  connected  with  the  Topeka  High  School  for  more  than 
four  years:  now  serving  second  year  as  principal  of  same;  mar- 
ried in  1 884  to  Miss  Florence  A.  Wasmuth,  who  died  March 
18.  1890. 

224.  William  E.  Higbee.  B.  A..  M.  A.     Rooms  626  and  627    Riaito 

Building.  Chicago.  Illinois. 

1885-1892.  member  of  the  law  and  insurance  firm  of  Eaton  & 
Higbee.  DeviKs  Lake,  North  Dakota:  1892  to  the  present, 
manager  Western  Factory  insurance  Association. 

225.  Murray  Levering  Johnson.  B.  A..  M.  A.     Oakland.  California. 

M.  D.  *  Cooper  Medical  College  ) ;  physician  and  surgeon  of  Re- 
ceiving Hospital.  Oakland.  California:  surgeon  of  the  Oakland 
Clinic,  and  consulting  surgeon  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad 
Company. 

226.  David  Thomas  Miles.  B.  S..  M.  S.     Casey,  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference:  pastor  M.  E.  church  :  married 
Miss  Hattie  Pritchard  in  1890. 

227.  William  Fee  Muse,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Ottumwa,  Iowa. 

Was  city  editor  Cedar  Rapids  Gazette  five  years:  is  now  busi- 
ness manager  of  the  Ottumwa  Courier. 

228.  Charles  Sylvester  Parmenter.  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Baldwin,  Kansas. 

Professor  Natural  Science.     See  page  148. 

229.  Robert  Howard  Patton.  B,  S..  M.  S.     Springfield,  Illinois. 

Member  of  the  law  firm  of  Orendorff  (present  Adjutant  Gen- 
eral of  Illinois;  &  Patton. 

230.  Thomas  Harvey  Simmons,  B.  A..  M.  A.     708  Tacoma  Building, 

Chicago,  Illinois. 

Took  second  prize  oratorical  contest  in  1882:  married  Luella 
Yocum,  1883:  lawyer. 


231.  Dora  Philena  Straight,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

Medical  student  of  the  Cook  County  Hospital,  304  Monroe   St. 

232.  Luella  Yocum,  B.  S.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

Won  oratorical  contest  in  1882:  married  Thomas  H.  Simmons 
in  1883.     They  reside  at  735  Warren  avenue. 

Class  of    1884. 

233.  Jacob  Lafayette  Burritt,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A,    Wellsoda,  New  York. 

See  page  141. 

234.  William    Montgomery  Carr,  B.   S.,  B.  A..  M.  A.      New  Haven 

Connecticut. 

B.  D.  (Drew  Theologic;^!  Seminary);  clergyman'  pastor  of 
the  St.  Andrews  M.  E.  Church.  New  Haven  ;  member  of  New 
York  East  Conference,  1895:  president  Young  People's  Union. 
New  Haven  District.     See  page  148. 

235.  Mary  Cochran,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      Brooklyn.  New  York. 

Teacher  of  Latin  in  Girls'  School. 

236.  Edward  C.  English.  B.  S.      Danville,  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (Rush  Med.);  physician;  ms.rried  Miss  Belle  Brown, 
September,  1889. 

237.  William  H.  Gay.  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      Dennison,  Texas. 

Ph.  D.,  1886,  Physics  and  History:  teacher:  superintendent  of 
schools. 

238.  James  Monroe  Green,  Ph.  B.     Trenton,  New  Jersey. 

M.  A.  (Dickinson  College);  Ph.  D.,  Philosophy  and  Peda- 
gogics. 

239.  William  Henry  Hart,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Lawyer:  present  member  of  the  city  council. 


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240.  Emma  Herron.  B.  A..  M.  A.      Lynchburg,  Virginia. 

Teacher:  High  School,  Rushville.  Illinois,  1884-1887:  Professor 
of  English  and  History,  Chaddock  College,  Quincy,  Illinois, 
1887-1890:  Professor  of  English  History,  Fort  Worth  Univer- 
sity, Fort  Worth,  Texas,  1890-1892:  married  to  Prof.  F.  W. 
Martin,  Ph.  D..  June  26,  1889;  has  done  considerable  post- 
graduate work  in  American  Literature  and  German:  present  ad- 
dress, Randolph-Macon  Woman's  College.      See  page  150. 

241.  Charles  Wellington  Minard,   B.  A..  M.  A.      Maywood.  Illinois. 

Ph.  D..  1894  (  Pedagogy):  teacher:  received  a  life  certificate 
to  teach  in  Illinois  in  1884:  principal  of  the  schools  at  Frank- 
ford  one  year :  superintendent  of  schools.  Wilmington,  five  years: 
superintendent  of  schools.  Maywood.  from  1890  to  the  present 
time. 

242.  Charles  Norton  Sloan,  B.  S.      Petersburg.  Illmois. 

Was  a  clergyman  for  two  years;  at  present,  a  printer. 

243.  Sara  J.  Underwood,  Ph.  B.     Greencastle.  Indiana 

Wife  of  Prof.  Lucien  M.  Underwood. 
Class  of   1885. 

244.  Asa  Howard  Ballard.  B.  A.,  M.  A. 

B.  D.  (University  of  Chicago:  clergyman;  Moderator,  Lain 
Baptist  Association. 

245.  Robert  Burns.      Niagara  Falls,  Canada. 

Clergyman. 

246.  J.  A.  Carmichael,  Ph.  B.      Columbus,  Ontario. 

Clergyman. 

247.  Arthur  Melvin  Conard.  B.  A.,  M.  A..  LL.  B.   Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Central  Illinois  Conference:  student  one  year  in 
Boston  School  of  Theology:  married  Miss  Etta  M.  Montgomery, 


October  14,  1885:  graduate  in  Law,  Illinois  Wesleyan  Univer- 
sity. 

248.  Mary  Theresa  Cowen,  B.  S..  M.  S.     Princeton.  Indiana. 

For  three  years  superintendent  Illinois  Young  Woman's  Chris- 
tian Temperance  Union;  married  October,  1892.  to  Rev. A.  H 
Kelso,  pastor  First  Cumberland  Presbyterian  church  at  Prince- 
ton. Indiana. 

249.  Abiah  Brown  Davis.  Ph.  B.     Spencer.  New  York. 

250.  Edward  E.  A.  Deavor.  Ph.  B.     Wrightsviile.  Pennsylvania. 

Ph.  D.;  Clergyman. 

251.  Andrew  W.  Edwards,  Ph,  B..  M.  A.      Denver.  Colorado. 

Ph.D.:  manager  Rocky  Mountain  agency  /Etna  Life  Insurance 
Company. 

252.  William  Frizzelle,  Ph.  B.     Toronto.  Ontario. 

Clergyman. 

253.  Horace  Gibson,  Ph.  B..  M.  A.  Maysville,  Wisconsin. 

254.  David  Kellock,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.  Spencerville,  Ontario. 

255.  Leon  Lee  Loehr,  B.  A.,  M.  A.  Chicago.  Illinois. 

LL.  B.  (Kent  Law  School);   lawyer;  firm    of   Loehr  &.   Nate, 
corner  Clark  and  Washington  Streets. 

256.  Mark  G.   McCaslin,  Ph.  B.     Gustavius,  Ohio. 

Clergyman. 

257.  David  Lemont  McCrae.     Coburg,  Ontario. 

258.  John  Jasper  Methvin,  Ph.  B.      Butler,  Georgia, 

259.  Oliver  Jasper  Perrin,  Ph,  B.     South  Bay  City.  Michigan. 

260.  Herbert  Powell.  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Fairbury.  Illinois. 

LL.  B.;   married   Miss  Jessie    B.  Downing,  of  Fairbury.  April 
10,  1893;  now  practicing  law. 


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261. 
262 

263. 

264. 


265. 

266. 
267. 

268. 

269. 
270. 


Henry  Edwin  Robbins.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.      Lyons.  Iowa. 

Henry  Horace  Rogers.  Ph.  B.     Kankakee,  Illinois. 

M.  D. 

Henry  Orlando  Stone.  B.  A.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Merchant :  member  of  Executive  Committee.  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation. 

Edwin  Melaney  Van  Patten.  B.  S.    M.  S.     Bloomington,  Illinois, 

Teacher:  student  one  year  in  Drew  Theological  Seminary:  one 
year  pastor  of  the  M.  E.  church,  Braidwood :  married  Lulu  D. 
Young,  class  of  1887.  who  died  May,  1892:  in  August.  1893, 
he  married  Miss  Anna  Fitz  Henry.     Seepage  141. 

John  Fletcher  Wight,  B.  A..  M.  A.      Bloomington,  Illinois, 
LL.  B„  1895:  lawyer. 

Class  of  1 886. 

Edward  Albert  Bigler,  B.  S.,  M.  S.      Auburn.  Illinois. 
Merchant. 

W.  F.  Brush.     Postoffice  unknown. 

Clergyman. 

Edward  G.  Catermole,  B.  A,,  M.  A      Arden,  Missouri, 

B.  D.  (Garrett  Biblical   Institute;;  Clergyman,  Central 
Conference. 

Josephine  A.  Chenoworth.  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Dwight,  Illinois, 
Teacher, 

Edward  Storer  Gwynn,  Ph.  B.,  M,  A, 
Ph.  D.;  clergyman. 


Imois 


271.  Fred  P.  Haggard,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Assam,  India. 

B.  D.   (Baptist  Seminary,  Morgan   Park):   missionary.   Baptist 
Church. 

272.  George  N.  Hay,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      New  Brunswick. 

273.  George  W.  Hull,  Ph.  B. 

274.  John  L.  Miller,  B.  S.,  M.  S.      Frankfort,  Kansas, 

Clergyman,  Kansas  Conference. 

275.  Margaret  Sarah  Patton,  B,  S, 

Married  John   R.  Abell,  Taylorville,  Illinois,  September,  1889; 
deceased, 

276.  Maud   Pillsbury,   Ph.   B.     605   Washington   Street,   Milwaukee, 

Wiscor.sn. 

Married  James  D.  Walker. 

277.  James  Quinn,  Ph.  B.      Manitoba,  Canada. 

Clergyman. 

278.  James  Shaw,  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Bloomington,  Illinois, 

LL.B.    1891  :   editor  Lancet, 

279.  Orilla  A.  Sikes,  B.  A.,  M,  A,      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Teacher:  principal  No.  5  school. 

280.  George  W.  Sikes,  B.  A.,  M.  A.      Helena,  Montana, 

Editor  Helena  Herald. 

281.  Samuel  Bower  Sinclair,  Ph.  B..  M    A.     Ontario, 

Clergyman. 

282.  William  Symonds,  Ph.  B.     Address  unknown, 

283.  Sarah  E,  Van  Pelt,  B.  S.      Normal,  Illinois, 


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284.  Albert  W.  Vanneman.  B.  S..  M.  S.     Stony  Beach,  California. 

285.  Frank  Ephraim  Welles.  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.     Geneseo.  New  York. 

286.  John  Heston  Willey.  Ph.  B.     Address  unknown. 

Clergyman. 

287.  Myron  Chesterfield  Wilcox,  Ph.  B„  M.  A.      Foochoo.  China. 

Ph.  D..  1895:  clergyman;  missionary  M.  E.  church. 

288.  Alexander  Tait.  Ph.  B.     Cntario.  Canada. 

Clergyman. 

289.  Bert  Woodworth,  B.  S.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

Merchant. 

290.  Harriet  Ella  Young,  B.  S.,  M.  S.      Blue  Mound,  Illinois. 

Teacher  in  mission  school,  Heber,  Utah;   married  Rev,  C.   E, 
Carr,  of  the  Illinois  Conference. 

Class  of    1887. 

291.  William  Wesley  Allen.  B.  S..  M.  S.     St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 

LL.  B.  (Chicago  College  of  Law);  lawyer. 

292.  Florence  Baldwin,  Ph.  B.     Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

293.  Charles  Milan  Barrickman,  B.  S.,  M.  S.      Pontiac,  Illinois. 

Lawyer;  Judge  Probate  Court. 

294.  James  Morris  Bull,  Ph,  B.     Minneapolis,  Minnesota. 

Clergyman. 

295.  John  Morgan  Davidson.  B.  S.,  M.  S.      Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

Wholesale  dealer,  paints  and  oils. 

296.  Myron  Tuttle  Dana,  Ph.  B.      Fredonia,  New  York. 


297.  Silas  Young  Giiian.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Milwaukee,  Wisconsin. 

Educator;   editor  of  The  Western  Teacher. 

298.  Edward  C.  Graff.     Sheridan,  Oregon. 

Clergyman;  missionary  M.  E.  Church.  Utah  and  Oregon. 

299.  Frederick  Osborn  Jackman,  B.  S.     Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa. 

M    D,  ( Chicago   Medical  College,,) ;  assistant    superintendent 
pathological  laboratory,  hospital  for  insane. 

300.  William  H.  Kerrick,  B.  S..  M.  S.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

LL.  B.,  1889;   lawyer;  secretary   Bloomington   Electric   Light 
Company. 

301.  Holman  Kelley  Hastings,  Ph.  B,      West  Side,  Iowa. 
Ph.  D.,  1890;   clergyman, 

302.  Edith  Kneeland.  B.  S.      Lexington,  Illinois, 

Teacher  in  High   School,    Lexington,    Illinois;  married  to  Dr. 
Hanson,  of  Lexington. 

303.  Enoch  C.  Lavers,  Ph.  B.      New  Brighton,  Pennsylvania. 

Ph.  D.,  1891;  teacher, 

304.  Charles  Ezra  Libby,  Ph.  B.      Holly  Springs,  Misssippi. 

Clergyman;  president  Rust  University. 

305       Daniel  Deroda  Lukes,  Ph.  B,,  M.  A.      Ligonier,  Indiana. 

306.  Laura  McCulloch,  B.  S.     Washburn,  Illinois. 

Teacher;  taught  in  Eureka,  Illinois,  and  other  places. 

307.  Albert  Alexander  Morrison,  Ph,  B.,  M.  A.     Schuyler,  Nebraska. 

Ph.  D.,  1889;  clergyman. 


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308.  Ella  New.  B.  S..  M.  S.     Pitlain.  Colorado. 

Teacher:  1887-1888.  taught  in  Preparatory  Department  of  the 
University. 

309.  John  William  Perrin.  Ph.  B.     Danville,  Illinois. 

310.  John  Charles  Richmond,  B.  S.     Fort  Scott,  Kansas. 

Teacher:    1890-1896,  principal  Mograve  School. 

311.  Louis  Warner  Riggs,  Ph.  B.     Cumberland.  Maine. 

Ph.  D..  1895:  teacher. 

312.  Rolland  Augustine  Russell,  B.  S..  M.  S.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

LL.  B..  1891:  lawyer:  professor  College  of  Law.    See  page  96. 

313.  Francis  Marion  Smith.  Ph.  B.     Amenia,  New  York. 

314.  Leonard  Abbey  Straight,  B.  A.     St.  Paul.  Minnesota. 

Student  in  Union  College  of  Law,  Chicago  ;  now  practicing  law. 

315.  Thomas  0.  Thomson.  Ph.  B.     Hamilton,  Ontario. 

Clergyman:  pastor  Locke  Street  Presbyterian  church. 

316.  Bina  Van   Petten,  B.   S..    M.   S.       1533   East   Eleventh  Street, 

Kansas  City.  Missouri. 

Stenographer:  married  Harry  Clark. 

317.  Robert  Henry  Waddell,  Ph.  B.     St.  George,  Ontario 

Clergyman. 

318.  Anthony  Walford,  Ph.  B.     Mooers,  Ontario, 

Clergyman. 

319.  Edward  Newell  Ware.  B.  A.     Florence,  Wisconsin, 

B.  D.  '  McCormick  ( :  clergyman,  pastor  Presbyterian  church- 

320.  Laura  Watson,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A      Albea  Lea,  Minnesota. 


321.  Altha  J,  Watson,  B.  S.     Edgerton,  Wisconsin. 

One  of  the  organizers  of  the  National  Y.  W.  C.  A.  for  colleges; 
died  in  1887. 

322.  Stellula  D.  Young,  B.  S.,  M.  A. 

Married  Prof.  E.  M.  Van  Petten,  August   31.    1887;    died   in 
Joliet,  Illinois,  May  8,  1892. 

Class  of  1888. 

323.  Charles  Reuben  Bailey.  A.  B.      Penacook,  New  Hampshire. 

Ph.  D.,  1892:  clergyman.  Baptist  church. 

324.  Rachel  Baumann,  B.  S.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Professor  of  Elocution,  High   School,  Denver.  Colorado.     See 
page  150. 

325.  David  Lodwick  Brethour,  Ph.  B..  M.  A. 

Ph.  D.,  1892:   clergyman.     Seepage  116. 

326.  Alice  E.  Brown.  Ph.  B.      Lafayette,  Indiana. 

327.  Lewis  Campbell,  Ph.  B.     South  Waukegan,  Illinois. 

Student    in   Garrett   Biblical   Institute,  Evanston :  pastor  M.  E. 
church. 

328.  Elijah  Chesney,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      Bay  City,  Michigan. 

Ph.  D.,  1882:   clergyman. 

329.  Alfred  Oscar  Coffin,  B.  A.  (Fisk  University).     West  Side,  Mis- 

sissippi. 

M.   A.,   Ph.  D.  (I.  W.  U.):  professor,  secretary  and   treasurer" 
Alcorn   Agricultural  and  Mechanical  College.     See  page    142, 

330.  Charles  E.  Collins.  B.  S.     Chicago,  Illinois, 

Teacher,  1888-93:   Law  Student. 


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331.  Joseph  Dyke  Walter  Deavor.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.      Weatherly,  Penn- 

sylvania. 

Ph.  D.,  1893:  clergyman. 

332.  George  Daniel.  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.     London.  Canada. 

Ph.  D..  1895.     See  page  146. 

333.  Lillie  English  Dimmitt,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Sioux  City.  Iowa. 

Professor  Ancient   Languages  in  the  University  of  the  North- 
west.    See  page  150. 

334.  Joseph  Finnemore.  Ph.  B.      12  College   Road.   Brighton.     Eng- 

land. 

Ph.  D.,  1890:  clergyman:  Examiner  Non-Resident  Department. 

335.  Lizzie  Ann  Grove,  Ph.  B.     Goal  City,  Illinois. 

Student  Gem  City  Business  College:  married  Rev.  John  H. 
Ryan. 

336.  Edward  Fletcher  Jordan.  Ph    B,.  M.  A.     Tremont.  Illinois. 

Ph.  D..  1890:  clergyman.  Baptist  church. 

337.  David  Keppel.  Ph.  B.     Clyde.  New  York. 

Clergyman.  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

338.  James  O.  Kirkpatrick.  B.  A.     Ashland.  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Illinois  Conference. 

339.  Ira  W.  Kenward.  Ph.  B.      Roberts.  Illinois. 

Teacher. 

340.  John  Joshua  Leach,  Ph.  B.      Brighton.  Ontario. 

Clergyman, 

341.  Frank  Lenig.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     St.  Louis.  Missouri. 

Ph.  D..  1890:  clergyman.  St.  Louis  Conference. 


342.  Edward  Lyle,  Ph.  B.     Fort  Collins.  Colorado. 

343.  James  Affleck  McBain.  Ph.  B.     Providence,  Rhode  island. 

Clergyman. 

344.  David  M.  Mihill.  Ph.  B,,  M.  A,     Toronto.  Canada, 

Clergyman. 

345.  William  Wirt  Mills.  Ph.  B.  "  Bethlehem.  Pennsylvania, 

346.  Monroe  Willis  Spear.  Ph.  B.     Mt.  Gilead.  Ohio. 

Teacher:  superintendent  public  schools. 

347.  John  Oakley  Spencer.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Tokio.  Japan. 

Ph.  D..  1893:  teacher:  member  of  General  Conference.  1888. 

348.  David  Taylor.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Southington.  Connecticut. 

Ph.  D. :  clergyman. 

349.  Cornelia  Belle  Wells.  Ph.  B.      Utica.  New  York. 

350.  Frank  T.  Wilcox.  B.  S..  M.  S.     California. 

M.  D. :  physician. 

351.  Richard  Edmund  Williams.  Ph.  B.     Pittston.  Pennsylvania. 

Class  of    1889. 

352.  Mary  R.  Albin.  B.  A. 

Teacher:  married  Mr.  Gillogly:  died  in  1894. 

353.  Gorlton  Montville  Balfour.  Ph.  B.      EUinwood.  Kansas. 

M.  D. :  physician. 

354.  Otho  Ford  Bartholo.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.      New  York. 

Ph.  D..  1891  :  clergyman. 

355.  William  Benjamin  Booth.  Ph.  B.      Rosemcnt.  Ontario. 

Clergyman. 


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356.  Dwight  Payson  Breed.  Ph.  B.     Wyandotta.  Michigan. 

Clergyman;  pastor  First  Congregational  church. 

357.  Edward  D.  Champion.  E.  A.,  M.  A.      Mattoon.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference. 

358.  James  William  Cupples.     Leeper.  Michigan. 

Teacher;  superintendent  public  schools. 

359.  Helen  Mary  Cyrus.  Ph.  B.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

Married. 

360.  Lu  Lester  Everly.  B.  A.,  M.  A.     Aurora.  Illinois. 

Teacher:  Science.  High  School. 

361.  Isaac  Day.     Orrillia.  Ontario. 

Educator:  inspector  of  schools. 

362.  Asbury  Newton  Ebaugh.  Ph.  B.     Baltimore,  Maryland. 

Teacher;  Professor  Mathematics.  Polytechnic  Institute. 

363.  Walter  H.  Elliott.      Hamilton.  Ontario. 

364.  Abram  Leonard  Gee.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Jerseyville.  Ontario. 

Clergyman. 

365.  Leslie  Philander  Hanna,  B.  S.     Waukegan,  Illinois. 

Teacher:  1889-1890.  principal  Greenfield  schools;  1890-1898. 
principal  Waukegan:  now  lawyer. 

366.  Andrew  H.  Harnly.  B.  A..  M.  A.      Mason  City.  Illinois. 

Clergyman;  Professor  Ancient  Language  and  History.  Mt.  Mor- 
ris. Illinois;  pastor  Baptist  church. 

367.  Henry  Harris.  Ph.  B.     Minooka,  Pennsylvania. 

Ph.  D..  1893;  clergyman;  pastor  Baptist  church. 


368.  Edward  D.  Henry,  B.  S.     Springfield,  Illinois. 

Lawyer. 

369.  George  Henry  Howe,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.     Warrensburg,  Missouri. 

Teacher.     See  page  143. 

370.  David  A.  Lockwood,  Ph.  B.      Plattsburg,  New  York. 

Teacher;  Professor  Mathematics,  Normal  School. 

371.  Myron  Lee  Norris,  Ph.  B.      Oregon.  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Rock  River  Conference. 

372.  George  A.  Powles,  Ph.  B.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

Teacher;  matematics;  West  District  High  School. 

373.  Alvin  Fletcher  Rohrer,  B.  A.     Waverly,  Illinois. 

1890-1893,  firm  of   Rohrer  &  Sahler.  real   estate  agents.  Salt 
Lake  City,  Utah;  principal  of  Waverly  schools. 

374.  Henry  H.  Sahler,  B.  S.,  B.  A.     Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

M.  A.,  M.  S.;  1890-1893,  firm  of  Rohrer  &  Sahler,  real  estate 
agents. 

375.  Andrew  J.  C.  Saunier,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

M.  D. ;  physician. 

376.  David  Henry  Snoke,  Ph.  B.      Durant,  Iowa. 

377.  William  Xavier  Sudduth,  Ph.  B..  M.  A.      100  Clark  St.,  Chicago. 

Illinois. 

M.  D..  D.  D.  S.     See  page  139. 

378.  George  Samuel  Thompson,  B.  A.      Nashville,  Tennessee. 

Teacher;    Professor   Mathematics.  Central  Tennessee  College. 


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379.  Richard  S.  Thomas.  Ph.  B.     Warren.  Ohio. 

Teacher:  superintendent  of  schools. 

380.  Smith  Williston  Toles,  Ph.  B..  M.  A.      New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

Ph.  D..  1894:  clergyman. 

381.  Frank  W.Wheeler,  B.  A.      100  Washington  St.,  Chicago,  Illinois, 

Wen  prize  in  the  Illinois  State  oratorical  contest:  represented 
the  State  in  the  Inter-Collegiate  contest  atCrinnell,  Iowa,  1889; 
lawyer. 

382:     Oscar  L,  Wilson,  Ph.  B.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Dean  College  of  Arts.  Illinois  Wesleyan  University, 

383.  Henry  Willis  Wood,  B.  S..  M.  S.     Shelaon.  Illinois. 

M.  D.  (Medical  College,  Columbus,  i ;  physician. 

Class  of  1890. 

384.  John  Sylvester  Brown,  Ph,  B.,  M.  A.      New  York  City. 

Teacher, 

385.  Lyman  Strickland  Brown,  Ph,  B,      Hamden,  New  York. 

Clergyman. 

386.  Arthur  Thomas  Carr.  Ph.  B.      Birmingham,  England, 

387.  Anson  Lorenzo  Caviness,  Ph,  B,     Syracuse,  New  York, 

Principal  public  schools, 

388.  Amasa  Franklin  Chaffee.  Ph.  B.      Union.  New  York, 

Clergyman. 
389      George  Clark,  Ph.  B.      Milton,  Ontario, 
Ph.  D..  1892:   clergyman. 


390.  Carry  May  Darnell.  B.  S,     Chicago,  Illinois. 

Stenographer  railroad  company,  office  of  superintendent  of  C. 

&,  N.  W.  Railroad  Company, 

391.  Delmar  Duane  Darrah,  Ph.  B.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Professor  of  Elocution;    director  of  Physical  Culture,  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University.     See  page  148. 

392.  Theophilus  S.  Devitt,  Ph,  D.     Branford.  Connecticut. 

Clergyman  ;  pastor  Congregational  church. 

393.  John  Ehrenstein,  Ph.  B.      New  York  City. 

394.  Israel  Miller  Gable,  Ph.  B.     Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

Clergyman. 

395.  Anna  Rosina  Godshaik,  Ph.  B.      Bethlehem.  Pennsylvania. 

396.  Francis  May  Gooding,  E.  S..  M.  S.      Fisher.  Illinois. 

Teacher,  Bloomington   Schools;    1894.  married   Dr.  Shurtz  of 
Fisher.  Illinois. 

397.  Henry  Gray,  Ph.  B.     West  Milton,  Ontario. 

Ph.  D.;   teacher. 

398.  Carrie  Melintha  Hainline.  B.  S,      Lewiston,  Illinois. 

Teacher. 

399.  Mary  Morilla  Hainline.  B.  S.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Stenographer. 

400.  Nellie  Hand,  Ph.  B.      Lafayette,  Indiana. 

401.  George  Hastings,  Ph.  B.,  M,  A.     Danielsville,  Connecticut. 

Clergyman. 
402       Edward  C.  Hulse.  Ph.  B.     Clarkstown.  New  Jersey. 


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403.  Albert  Lee.  Ph.  B.     Leeds,  England.  415. 

Clergyman.  415 

404.  Lydia  Birchard  McCoy.  B.  S.     Pueblo,  Colorado. 

Teacher:  died  January  23,  1894.  417 

405.  Alice  McCoy,  B.  S.     Pontiac,  Illinois. 

Teacher;  married  Huston  B.  Watt,  farmer.  418. 

406.  William  Lincoln  McMahan.  B.  A.     Lincoln.  Illinois. 

Lawyer.  419. 

407.  Clinton  B.  Marsh,  Ph.  B.      North  Tonawanda.  New  York. 

Principal  high  schools.  420. 

408.  George  Wesley  Marvin,  Ph.  B.     Woodville,  Ontario. 

M.  A..  Ph.  D.:  clergyman.  421. 

409.  Martha  Josephine  Myers,  Ph.  B.     Pomona,  California. 
Married  Dr.  Cassius  Maxon  Smith 

410.  Joseph  C.  Nate.  B.  S..  M    S..  M.  A.     Corner  Clarke  and  Wash- 

ington Streets,  Chicago.  422. 

LL.  B.  (Northwestern  University);  law  firm  of  Nate  &  Loehr. 

411.  Thomas  Nicholson,  Ph.  B.     Evanston,  Illinois.  423. 

Clergyman;  student  Garrett  Biblical  Institute. 

412.  Sarah  Peacock,  Ph.  B.     Newport,  Kentucky.  424 

413.  Nellie  J.  Pollock,  B.  A.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Teacher;  professor  modern  languages,  Ripon,  Wisconsin.  425. 

414.  Ralph  F.  Potter,  B.  A..  M.  A.     Bloomington,  Illinois.  426. 

Lawyer. 


John  Joseph  Power.  Ph.  B.      Picton,  Nova  Scotia. 
B.  Merrill  Ricketts,  Ph.  B.     Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

M.  D.;  physician. 
William  Bowman  Tucker,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.  Arden,  Ontario,  Canada, 

Ph.  D.;  clergyman. 
Frank  Wardle.  B.  A..  M.  A.      Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 
With  Smead.  Wills  &  Co. 
Harvey  Sherman  Watson.  B.  S.,  M.  S.      Normal,  Illinois. 

Nurseryman. 
George  Thieley  Wetzel,  B.  S.,  M.  S.     Auburn,  Illinois. 

Clergyman. 
Francis  Henry  Wogan,  Ph.  B.     Wogansport,  North  Dakota. 

Clergyman. 

Class  of    1891. 

Charles  Harrison  Bohn,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      Boone,  Iowa. 

Clergyman. 
Wesley  Campbell,  Ph.  B..  M.  A.      Blythe.  Ontario. 

Ph,  D.;   clergyman. 

Joseph  Simpson  Cook,  Ph.  B..  M,  A.      Ripley,  Ontario. 

Ph.  D.;  clergyman. 
Carry  Lena  Cole,  B.  S.      Phosnix.  Arizona. 
William  N.  Cottrell,  B.  S.,  M.  A.       Mason  City,  Illinois. 

B.  A.  (Harvard),  1893;   LL.  B.  (Harvard). 


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427.  Frank  J.  Diamond.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Tonavanda,  N.  Y. 

Ph.    D.:  teacher. 

428.  George  William  Dill.  Ph.  B.     Portland.  New  Brunswick. 

429.  John  Fuller.  B.  S..  LL.  B.     Clinton.  Illinois. 

Lawyer;  State's  Attorney. 

430.  Sulveanus  S.  Gabriel.  Ph.  B.     Osborn.  Ohio. 

431.  Henry  Jacob  Harnly.  B.  S..  M.  A.      McPherson,  Kansas. 

B.  A.  (^Harvard),  1892:   teacher;   Professor  Natural  Science, 
McPherson  College.  McPherson,  Kansas. 

432.  Samuel  Hutchinson,  B.  S.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

Assistant  teller  American  Exchange  Bank;  pharmacist. 

433.  Joseph  Thomas  Kingsberry.  Ph.  B.,M.  A.     Salt  Lake  City.  Utah. 

Ph.  D. ;  professor.     See  page  144. 

434.  Walter  Mitchell.  B.  S..  B.  A.      Petersburg.  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Illinois  Conference. 

435.  Alva  Bailey  Peck.  B.  S.      Bowen,  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference. 

436.  Arthur  William  Potter,  Ph.  B.     Wilkesbarre,  Pennsylvania. 

437.  George  Henry  Roberts,  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Stratton,  England. 

438.  Albert  Wilber  Taylor.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.      Rushville,  New  York, 

439.  Nannie  M.  Want,  B.  A.      Newman,  Illinois. 

Teacher. 

440.  William  Arthur  Warner,  Ph.  B.      La  Fayette.  Illinois. 

M.  D.,  1894  (Chicago  Medical  College). 


441.  Hattie  May  Wasmuth,  B.  S.     Lewiston,  Illinois. 

Teacher:    1891-1894.    High  School,   Keithsburg:    1894-1896, 

High  School.  Lewiston. 

442.  Charles  Crum  Wilson.  B.  S.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

Clerk.  Bankers'  National  Bank. 

443.  Preston  Wood.  Jr.,  B.  S.      Maroa.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference. 

444.  Charles  Yardley.  Ph.  B.     Westchester.  Pennsylvania. 

Class  of  1892. 

445.  John  Sheaffer  Arnold.  Ph.  B.     Ridgeway,  Pennsylvania. 

446.  Cyrus  Edward  Bigler.  B.  A.     Auburn.  Illinois. 

Canning  factory  and  general  mercantile  business. 

447.  William  Brandon,  B.  A.      Lovington.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference. 

448.  William  Fletcher  Cameron.  Ph.  B.     Crossville.  Tennessee. 

449.  William  Thomas  Cline,  Ph.  B.     University  Place.  Nebraska. 

Clergyman. 

450.  John  Frederick  Augustus  Deutsch,  B.  A.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Student  Chicago  Medical  College. 

451.  Joseph  Fitzgerald.  Ph.  B.     Scarsdale,  New  York. 

452.  Alonzo  J.  Funkhauser.  Ph.  B.    LL.  B.      Mattoon.  Illinois. 

453.  Arthur  B.  Haines.  Ph.  B.      Fort  McLeod.  Alberta.  Canada. 

454.  E.  Helen  Hannahs.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Albany.  New  York. 

Ph.  D.,  1895:  teacher. 


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455.  Lewis   Reifsneider  Harley.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     North  Wales.  Penn- 

sylvania. 

Ph.  D. :  teacher.  Political  Science. 

456.  Jonathan  Albert  Hill,  Ph.  B.     Dundas,  Ontario. 

457.  John  Franklin  Horney.  Ph.  B.     Fairmount.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference. 

458.  Vergil  Linn  Huey.  B.  A.     Gibson  City,  Illinois. 

Teacher:  1892-1893, assistant  in  High  School,  Watseka;  1893- 
1894.  principal  High  School,  Sheldon,  Illinois;  1894-1896, 
student  in  Johns  Hopkins  University. 

459.  Eugene  Landon.  B   S.     Auburn,  Illinois. 

Student  Gem  City  Business  College;  merchant. 

460.  Agnes  Grace  Loudon.  B.  S.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

461.  William  Love.  B.  S..  M.  A.     Park  River,  North  Dakota. 

Clergyman,  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

462.  William  D.  Mabry.  Ph.  B.     Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Clergyman. 

463.  J.  Finley  Malcom.  Ph.  B.     Macomb,  Illinois. 

464.  Job  Smith  Mills.  Ph    B.     Eugene,  Oregon. 

M.  A.  COtterbein):  Ph.  D.,  1894;  elected  Bishop  of  United 
Brethren  church.  1892. 

465.  Joshua  Hughes  Paul.  Ph.  B.     Logan.  Utah. 

466.  Elmer  S.  Redman,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.     Belfast,  New  York. 

467.  Edwin  Rose.  Ph,  B.     Rockton,  Illinois. 

Teacher. 


468.  Albert  Winfield  Ryan,  Ph.  B.      Duluth,  Minnesota. 

D.  C.  L.    (Trinity  College  )  ;   LL.  D.    (Toronto  University  and 
Victoria  College,  Toronto). 

469.  William  Richard  Scanlan,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      Omagh,  Ontario. 

Ph.  D..  1895:  clergyman. 

470.  William  H.  Simpson.  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Au  Sable,  Michigan. 

471.  William  Taylor,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.     Charlotte,  New  York. 

Clergyman. 

472.  John   Henry  Tear,  Ph.  B.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

473.  Charles  W.  Whorrell,  Ph.  B.      Peoria,  Illinois. 

Clergyman  ;  Presbyterian. 

Class  of  1893. 

474.  William  C.  Armstrong,  Ph.  B.      Hawksville.  Ontario. 

475.  Eugene  Orville   Eardwell,   Ph.    B..  M.  A.      Emporium,  Pennsyl- 

vania. 

476.  Asa  Irwin  Brown,  Ph.  B.     Watford,  Ontario. 

477.  Frank  Crane,  Ph.  B.     Omaha,  Nebraska. 

Clergyman:   Illinois  Conference,  1892:   Nebraska  Conference, 
1895. 

478.  John  P    Edgar,  Ph.  B.     Arrowsmith,  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Illinois  Conference. 

479.  Elizabeth  H,  Fullenwider,  B.  S,     Chicago,  Illinois. 

Te,-icher. 

480.  William  Harris,  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      Montreal,  Quebec. 

Clergyman. 


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481.  Mary  L.  Hickman,  B.  S.     Rossville,  Illinois. 
Teacher;  assistant  principal  schools. 

482.  Frank  Luther  Horn.  Ph.  B.,  M.  A.      Lexington,  Ohio. 

Teacher. 

483.  Mary  E.  Hotsenpiller,  B.  S.      Ballard,  Illinois. 

Teacher. 

484.  William  H.  Johnson,  B.  A.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Student  at  Johns  Hopkins  University.  * 

485.  James  Ross  Kaye,  Ph.  B.      Madison,  Wisconsin. 

486.  Phebe  Kerrick,  Ph.  B      Jacksonville,  Illinois. 

Teacher;  professor  of  Natural  Science  and  preceptress  Illinois 
Female  College. 

487.  Elbert  M.  Kirkpatrick,  B.  S.     Chenoa.  Illinois. 

Law  student.  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  1 894:  grain  merchant. 

488.  Charles  E.  Knapp,  B.  A.     Salina,  Kansas. 

Teacher;  professor  Science  and  Penmanship.  St.  John's  School. 

489.  F.  A.  W.  Meyer.  Ph.  B.      Lochine,  Quebec. 

Clergyman. 

490.  Charles  Augustus  Moore,  Ph.  B.      Paxton.  Illinois. 

Clergyman;  pastor  Congregational  church. 

491.  Clayton  L.  Morey.  Ph.  B.     Greenwich,  New  York. 

492.  Irene  May  Morse,  Ph.  B.      Laramie,  Wyoming, 

Teacher;  State  University, 


493.  Gilbert  Charles  Moulsdaie.  Ph.  B.     Flemington,  New  Jersey. 

Clergyman. 

494.  George  R.  Newkirk,  B.  A.     Warrensburg.  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Illinois  Conference. 

495.  William  Clayton  Noll,  Ph.  B.     Wellsville    New  York. 

496.  Thom.as   Edwin  Orr,  B.  S.      Buffalo.  Illinois. 

Teacher;  principal  of  schools. 

497.  Mrs.  Harriet  Towle  Perrin,  Ph.  B.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

498.  Joseph  Waite  Presby,  Ph.  B      Argyle,  New  York. 

Clergyman 

499.  William  Charles  Reuter,  Ph.  B.      Hannibal,  Missouri. 

Clergyman,  Missouri  Conference. 

500.  William  H.  Ryan,  Ph.  B.     Cobbleshill.  New  York. 

501.  George  Fletcher  Salton.  Ph.  B.      Brussels.  Ontario. 

502.  Jerohn  J.  Savitz,  Ph.  B.     Slatington,  Pennsylvania. 

503.  Albert  T.  Sowerby,  Ph.  B..  M.  A.     Aylmer,  West  Ontario. 

Ph.  D.,  1895;  clergyman. 

504.  George  T.  Trach.  Ph.  B.      New  Washington,  Pennsylvania. 

505.  Charles  Franklin  Van  Sant,  Ph.  B.      Essex,  New  York. 

506.  Mrs.  Hannah  L.  White,  Ph.  B.      Lake  Linden,  Michigan. 

Class  of  1894. 

507.  Grace  Adams,  B.  S.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Chicago  Training  School. 


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508.     Samuel  Buell  Allison.  Ph.  B.     Eimwood.  Illinois. 
509      Lucy  Bates.  B.  S.     Bloomington,  iiiinois. 

Professor  of  German.  Chaddock  College.  Quincy.  Illinois. 

510.     William  E.  Blair.  B.  A.     Evanston.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference:  Garrett  Biblical  Institute. 
51  1       Ada  Brewer.  B.  S.     Moore's  Hill  College.  Indiana. 

instructor  in  Rhetoric  and  English. 

512.  Wesley  D.  Britton.  B.  A.     De  Land.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference. 

513.  Samuel  T.  Burnett.  B.  S.     Chatham.  Illinois. 

Teacher:  principal  of  schools. 

514.  Herbert  S.  Cadwell.  B.  S.     Utica.  Illinois. 

Bank  clerk. 

515.  Charles  N.  Cole.  B.  A.     Champaign,  Illinois. 

Teacher:   1894-5  principal  of  schools,  Windsor.  Illinois:  assist- 
ant professor  of  Latin.  University  of  Illinois. 

516.  Thomas  Henry  Gilbert.  Ph.  B.     Red  Bluff.  California. 

517.  Frederick  J.  Giddings,  B.  A.     Deer  Creek.  Illinois. 

Clergyman;  student  Garrett  Biblical  Institute:  Central  Illinois 
Conference. 

518.  Ida  Belle  Haslup.  Ph.  B.     Pueblo.  Colorado. 

Teacher. 

519.  Leonard  E.  Lackland,  B.  S.     Chenoa.  Illinois, 

1894-1895.  real  estate  agent,  Mendota;  grain  merchant. 


520.  J.  Edwin  McCartney.  Ph.  B.     Valley  City,  North  Dakota. 

521.  Robert  F.  McDaniel.  Ph.  B.      Buffalo,  Illinois. 

Teacher,  1894-1895;  clergyman,  Illinois  Conference. 

522.  Elmer  E.  Mecham,  B.  A.      Milford.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Central  Illinois  Conference. 

523.  John  Wesley  Moles,  Ph.  B.      Hanna  City,  Illinois. 

Clergyman.   Central  Illinois  Conference. 

524.  William  G.  Park,  Ph.  B.     West  Hanover,  Massachusetts. 

525.  Laura  I.  Poe.  B.  A.     Cerro  Gordo,  Illinois, 

Teacher. 

526.  John  W.  Priest,  Ph.  B,      Browning,  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Illinois  Conference. 

527.  J.William  Probasco.  B.  S.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Student  Law  School.  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 

528.  Charles    Ault   Procunier,   Ph.   B.,    M.    A.       Revelstoke.    British 

Columbia,  Canada. 

529.  George  W.  Randle,  B.  A. 

Clergyman,  Southern  Illinois  Conference. 

530.  Austin  C.  Rishel,  Ph.  B.      Ravenswood,  Illinois. 

531.  Henry  William  Shryock,  Ph.  B.     Olney,  Illinois. 

Teacher. 

532.  Anna  Pearl  Smith,  B.  S.     Auburn,  Illinois, 

533.  Thomas  John  Snowdon,  Ph.  B,      Hanover,  Ontario. 

534.  Amos  Clyde  Staley,  B.  A.     DeLand,  Illinois. 

Teacher. 


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535.  Mary  E.  Sterry,  B.  S.     Chenoa,  Illinois. 

Married  E.  M.  Kirkpatrick,  grain  merchant. 

536.  Benjamin  A.  Sweet.  B.  A.      Marshall,  Illinois. 

County  superintendent  of  schools. 

537.  E.  Van  Slyke.  Ph.  B.     Albany,  New  York. 

538.  Charles  Benjamin  VanWie,  Ph.  B.     Florence.  Alabama. 

Professor. 

539.  Willliam  Wallace  Whitmore.  B.  A.     Peoria,  Illinois. 

LL,  B.  1895:  law  firm  of  Whitmore  &  Barnes. 

540.  William  H.  Washburne,  Ph.  B.     Johnstown,  New  York. 

541.  William  Williamson.  Ph.  B,     Verona,  Ontario. 

Class  of    1895. 

542.  Charles  C.  Adams.  B.  S.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Assistant.  Biology  and  Physics,  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 

543.  Freeman  Harlan  Allen,  Ph.  B.      Potsdam,  New  York. 

544.  Robert  E.  Bird,  B.  A.      Roberts,  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Central  Illinois  Conference. 

545.  Fred  L.  Buck,  B.  A.      Mt.  Auburn,  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Illinois  Conference. 

546.  Samuel  Parker  Cadman,  Ph.  B,     Yonkers.  New  York. 

547.  Alvin  Alonzo  Cober.  Ph.  B.     Newberry,  Pennsylvania. 

548.  Francis  Marion  Coleman,  Ph.  B.     Cedar  Falls.  Iowa. 
549     Albert  W.  Griffith,   Ph.  B.      Norwich,  New  York. 


550.  Alice  Grove,  B.  S.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Teacher,  city  schools. 

551.  Hattie  Henry,  B.  S.     Mt.  Pleasant,  Utah. 

Missionary  M.  E.  church. 

552.  Ruth  Henry,  B.  A.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

553.  Ralph  Holm.es.  B.  A.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

554.  Judson  Hopkins,  B.  S.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

555.  Ethel  Hopson,  B.  S.     Midland  City,  Illinois. 

Principal  schools. 

556.  J.  Howard  Hulsart.  Ph.  B.     Dover.  New  Jersey. 

557.  Mary  Laity  Jay,  Ph.  B.      Fort  Wayne,  Indiana. 

Teacher. 

558.  George  John  Kirn,  Ph.  B.     Jackson.  Michigan. 

559.  Herbert  Buell  Johnson,  Ph.  B.     Aoyama,  Tokyo,  Japan. 

Teacher, 

560.  Frederick  Hiram  Lane.  Ph.  B.      Babylon.  New  York. 

561.  James  Liddy.  Ph.  B.      Hampton.  Ontario. 

562.  James  Milford  McKee.  Ph.  B.     Silver  Creek.  New  York. 

563.  Louis  Magin,  B.  A.     Chillicothe,  Illinois. 

Principal  schools. 

564.  Walworth  Marsh,  B.  A.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Student  Harvard  University. 

565.  Martha  Matheny,  B.  S.     Normal.  Illinois. 

Assistant    Preparatory    School.   Illinois  Wesleyan    University. 
See  page  147. 


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566.  Frederick  Mayer.  Ph.  B.     Jackson.  Michigan. 

567.  William  B.  Merrill.  B.  S.     Lexington,  Illinois. 

Law  student,  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 

568.  Wave  Miller.  B.  S.     Bloomington.  Illinois, 

Law  student.  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 

569.  James  Riggs  Orr.  B.  S.      Buffalo.  Illinois. 

Teacher. 

570.  Frederick  S.  Parkhurst.  Ph.  B.     Rochester.  New  York. 

571.  Arthur  William  Rich.  Ph.  B.     Cedar  Falls.  Iowa. 

572.  Norton  M.  Rigg.  B.  A.     Warsaw.  Illinois. 

Clergyman.  Illinois  Conference. 


573.  Rudolph  H.  Schuett,  B.  A.      Pekin.  Illinois. 

Clergyman,  Central  Illinois  Conference. 

574.  Julius  Silberstein.  Ph.  B..  M.  D.      Fort  Apache,  Arizona. 

575.  Hiram  W.  Slack,  Ph.  B.     St.  Paul,  Minnesota, 

576.  Fred  Warren  Smedley,  Ph.  B.      Peru,  Illinois, 

577.  Clarence  E,  Snyder,  B.  A.      Moweaqua,  Illinois, 

Instructor  in  German  and  French,  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 
See  page  147. 

578.  Oscar  Calvin  Henry  Spiller,  Ph,  B.      Maynard,  Texas, 

579.  Bart  C.  Van  Ingen,  Ph.  B.      Northville,  New  York. 

580.  W.  J.  Wilson,  Ph.  B.     Ottawa,  Ontario 


Aluhni  of  the  Lav  School. 


Class  of    1875. 

53L  Richard  Osborn.  Judge  Superior  Court      Seattle,  Washington. 

582.  Randolph  A.  Pike,  real  estate  broker.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

583.  John  H.  T.  James. 

584.  Newton  B.  Reed,  lawyer.      Pierre.  South  Dakota. 

585.  Isaac  D.  Walker,  lawyer.     Decatur,  Illinois. 

586.  Marshall  N.  Williams,  lawyer.     KansEs  City,  Missouri. 


Class  of    1876. 

587.  Joseph  L.  Colvin.      Normal,  Illinois. 

588.  Lester  M.  Hall,  lawyer,     St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

589.  William  D.  Haynie,  lawyer.     South  Dakota. 

590.  Walter  M.  Keenan,  lawyer.     Chicago,  Illinois, 

591.  George  W,  Martin,  lawyer,     Virginia,  Illinois. 

592.  William  P.  McMurray.      Normal,  Illinois. 


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593. 
594. 
595. 
596. 


597. 
598, 
599. 

600. 
601. 
602. 
603. 


604. 
605. 
606. 
607. 
608. 
609. 
610. 
611. 
612. 


Harry  D.  Spencer,  lawyer.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 
Richard  A.  Wade,  lawyer.     Chicago,  Illinois. 
George  L.  Warlow,  lawyer.     Virginia.  Illinois. 
Charles-  F.  Wertz,  book-keeper.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 
Class  of  1877. 

Winslow  Evans,  lawyer.     Peoria,  Illinois.     See  No.  i  15. 

George  L.  Hoffman,  lawyer.      Mt.  Carroll,  Illinois. 

Zechariah  T.  Hundly.      Deceased. 

Frank  Jackman. 

John  Moore,  lawyer.      Lincoln,  Nebraska.     See  No.  95. 

J.  Patterson  Smith.     Chenoa,  Illinois. 

George  Snelling.  lawyer.     Des  Moines.  Iowa. 

Edward  W.  Sutherland,  farmer.      Holder,  Illinois. 


Frank  Young. 


Class  of    1878. 


Eli  P.  Adams,  lawyer.      Little  Falls.  Minnesota.     See  No.  101 

George  L.  Artz,  lawyer.     Columbus,  Ohio. 

John  M.  Allyn. 

John  W.  Barger. 

Robert  H.  Brown,  lawyer.      Huron,  South  Dakota. 

Louis  L.  Burr,  merchant.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

John  Cook. 

John  W.  Hartley,  deceased. 

John  T.  McClure.     Denver.  Colorado. 

William  S.  Metz. 


613.  William  Ollis.      Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

614.  James  M.  Pulliam.      Little  Fails.  Minnesota. 

615.  John  M.  Ready,  lawyer.      Wellington.  Kansas. 

616.  Frank  T.  Rowell.  deceased. 

617.  Christopher  W.  Stephenson,  lawyer.     Ottawa,  Kansas. 

618.  Squire  Tompkins,  employee  Illinois  Penitentiary.     Joliet,  Illinois. 

619.  I.  Edwin  Vale,  lawyer,      Superior,  Nebraska.     See  page  142. 

Class  of    1879. 

620.  H.  Leon  Coffey,  lawyer.     Streator.  Illinois. 

621 .  Samuel  B.  Curtis. 

622.  Orlando  B.  Ficklin,  Jr..  deceased. 

623.  Eugene  A.  Ford. 

624.  W,  H.  Lanning.  lawyer.      Hastings.  Nebraska. 

George  P.  Meixsell,  lawyer.      Pekin,   Illinois.     See  No.  109 
Ca-lvin  Rayburn.  lawyer.     Bloomington.  Illinois.     See  No.  126. 

625.  John  H.  Shay,  lawyer.     Streator.  Illinois. 

626.  Marietta  B.  R.  Shay. 

627.  Kim.ball  P.  Snyder, 

628.  John  Stapleton,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Class  of    1880. 

629.  William  E.  Haworth, 

630.  George  A.  Hill,  lawyer.  Bloomington.  Illinois. 

631.  Curtis  McMasters,  lawyer.      Howard,  Kansas. 

632.  James  H.  McCoy,  lawyer.      Decatur,  Illinois. 

633.  George  B.  Miller,  merchant.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 


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634.  Charles  A.  Minier. 

635.  John  J.  Morrissey.  lawyer.     Bloomington,  Illinois.    See  Page  97. 

636.  James  L.  Stoker. 

637.  John  M.  Thompson,  deceased. 

638.  Lincoln  H.  Weldon,  lawyer.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Class  of    1881. 

639.  Philip  W.  Barnes,  lawyer.     Lawrenceville.  Illinois. 

640.  F.  B.  Blandin.  lawyer.     Streator,  Illinois. 

641.  John  J.  Brown,  lawyer.     Vandalia,  Illinois. 

642.  Willey  L.  Brown. 

643  Hugh  Carroll,  deceased. 

644  John  D.  Clark. 

645.  Charles  R.  Dollarhide. 

646.  Edward  J.  Fisher. 

647.  William  D.  Fulwiler.  General  Manager  Arizona  Land   Company. 

Phoenix.  Arizona. 

648.  Frank  R.  Henderson,  lawyer.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

649.  Charles  W.  Israel,  lawyer.     Henrietta,  Texas. 

650.  J.  M.  McAfferty.  deceased. 

651.  Amos  Oiler,  lawyer.     Stanton,  Illinois. 

652.  Charles  P.  Schwer,  lawyer.      Hebron,  Nebraska. 

653.  Benjamin  F.  Stocks,  lawyer.     Garden  City,  Kansas. 

Class  of    1882. 
654. 


James  M.  Albert. 

Horatio  G.  Bent,  lawyer.     Bloomington, 


linois.     See  No.  171. 


655.  William  P.  Blue.     Nokomis,  Illinois. 

656.  Orion  K.  Brown.     California,  Missouri. 

657.  Arthur  H.  Bennett,  lawyer.      Minden.  Nebraska. 

658.  LaFayette  Council. 

659.  W.  W   S.  Eberle. 

660.  John  T.  English,  lawyer.      Danville.  Illinois. 

661.  Andrew  J    Funkhouser,  lawyer.     Mattoon,  Illinois. 

662.  Charles  Goodspeed,  lawyer.     Joliet,  Illinois. 

663.  Sand  F.  Goodspeed,  banker.     Joliet,  Illinois. 

664.  Douglas  H.  Helm,  lawyer.      Metropolis,  Illinois. 

665.  Lewis  E.  Ijams,  ex-county  treasurer.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

666.  Benjamin  F.  Simpson. 

667.  Harry  V.  Tipton,  deceased. 

Class  of    1883. 

668.  George  W.  Ballance. 

669.  Richard  M.  Barnes,  lawyer.     Lacon.  Illinois. 

670.  Martin  A.  Chambers. 

671.  William  H.  Harnsberger,  lawyer.      Decatur,  Illinois. 

672.  Manford  E.  Kinnan. 

Jacob  P.  Lindley,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois.     See  page  94, 

673.  John  J.  Pitts,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

674.  J.  Walter  Ransdell.     Deceased. 

675.  Eben  A.  Richardson,  lawyer.     Shelbyville,  Illinois. 

676.  Oscar  R.  Silliman 


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Class  of  1884. 

677.  Frank  D.  Ader.  lawyer.     Bainbridge,  Indiana. 

678.  John  W.  Davis.  Iswyer.     Topeka,  Kansas. 

679.  William  E.  David,  lawyer.      Blair.  Nebraska. 

680.  A.  L.  Phillips,  lawyer.     Gibson  City.  Illinois. 

681.  Samuel  D.  Stahl.     Washington.  D.  C. 

682.  George  R.  Tilton.  lawyer.      Danville,  Illinois. 

Class  of  1885. 

683.  Asher  C.  Ball    lawyer.      Pontiac,  Illinois. 

684.  Andrew  J.  Barr,  lawyer.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

685.  J.  C.  Briney.     Sheldon's  Grove.  Illinois. 

686.  Joseph  K.  Burres.  lawyer.     Tuscola,  Illinois. 

Edward  E.  Donnelly,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  111.     Sae   No.   213. 

687.  Price  Griffith. 

688.  Archibald  A.  McCianahan.  lawyer.     Omaha.  Nebraska. 

689.  John  M.  Newman. 

Class  of    1886. 

690.  Edwin  W.  Benedict,  lawyer.     Topeka.  Kansas. 

691.  Enoch  Brock,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois, 

692.  Robert  J.  Cannell.  lawyer.      Hutchinson.  Kansas, 

693.  Reed  Green,  lawyer.     Cairo,  Illinois. 

694.  John  Harding,  Jr..  lawyer.     Fort  Smith.  Arkansas. 

695.  Louis  C.  Hay.  lawyer.     Bloomington,  Illinois, 

696.  Edgar  P.  Holly,  lawyer,      Pontiac,  Illinois, 

697.  David  W.  Kent,  lawyer.      Hutchinson,  Kansas. 


698.  Clement  L.  V.  Mulkey,  lawyer.      Mound  City.  Illinois. 

699.  Edward  B.  Rood,  lawyer.     Galveston.  Texas. 

700.  Wilber  S.  Scanlan.  lawyer.      Kane,  Illinois. 

701.  Robert  E.  Williams,  Jr.,  lawyer,     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Class  of  1887. 

702.  Edward  Barry,  lawyer.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

703.  S.  0.  Davidson,  lawyer.     Springfield,  Illinois. 

704.  George  B.  Gillespie,  lawyer.     Vienna.  Illinois. 

705.  Marion  F.  Hufford.  lawyer.     Canton.  Illinois. 

706.  Charles  F.  Mansfield,  lawyer.      Mansfield.  Illinois. 

707.  Shelton  L.  Smiith,  Jr.,  lawyer,      Lexington.  Illinois. 

708.  John  R.  Pogue. 

709.  J.  D.  Welch.     Galesburg,  Illinois. 

Class  of    1888. 

710.  Albert  G.  Abney.  lawyer.      Harrisburg.  Illinois. 

711.  Harry  L.  Arnold,  lawyer,     Wichita.  Kansas. 

712.  Windle  G.  Brooks,  lawyer.      Kankakee,  Illinois. 

713.  William  P.  Craig,  lawyer.     Champaign,  Illinois, 

714.  Charles  C.  Craig,  lawyer.     Galesburg.  Illinois, 

715.  John  W.  Keeslar,  lawyer,      Danville,  Illinois, 

716.  Otto  A.  Lowentrout.     California. 

717.  Robert  P.  McNulta,  lawyer.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

718.  Franklin  J,  Parr,  farmer,     Oreana.  Illinois, 

719.  Theodore  G.  Risley,  lawyer.     Guthrie,  Oklahoma. 

720.  Otho  D.  Swearingen,     Chicago,  Illinois, 


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721.  John    H.  Sikes.    Deputy   Secretary   Grand    Lodge.   I.  O.  0.   F. 

Springfield.  Illinois. 

722.  Roland  Vandeventer,  lawyer.      Mt.  Sterling.  Illinois. 

Class  of    1889. 

723.  William  Brennan.     Ogden,  Illinois. 

724.  Lee  Oneil  Brown,  lawyer.     Ottawa,  Illinois. 

725.  Charles  I.  Cook.  lawyer.     Chattanooga.  Illinois. 

726.  Harry  L.  Dunlap.  lawyer.     St.  Louis.  Missouri. 

727.  George  N.  Hamilton,  lawyer.     Galesburg,  Illinois. 

728.  J.  Benjamin  Hoxie,  lawyer.     Tonica,  Illinois. 

William  H.  Kerrick.  lawyer.   Bloomington,  Illinois.  See  No.  300. 

729.  John  F.  Lawrence,  lawyer.      Danville.  Illinois. 

730.  Daniel  C.  Miller. 

731.  Frank  W.  Morrasy.  lawyer.     Lincoln,  Illinois. 

732.  Burke  Vancil,  lawyer.      Springfield,  Illinois. 

733.  Miles  K.  Young,  lawyer.     Peoria,  Illinois. 

Class  of    1890. 

734.  John  S.  Allan. 

735.  Frank  D.  Ayers.  lawyer.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

736.  Arthur  K.  Brittain. 

737.  William  N.  Brown. 

738.  Aaron  T.  Depue. 

739.  Joseph  A.  Gardiner,  lawyer.     Hastings.  Nebraska. 

740.  Charles  W.  Goodwin,  lawyer.     Luzerne,  Iowa. 

741.  Russ  Lambert,  lawyer.     Whatcom,  Washington. 


742.  Marion  May,  Jr.,  lawyer.     Chicago,  Illinois. 

743.  Frank  B    McKennan,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

744.  Henry  M.  Murray,  farmer.      Metropolis,  Illinois. 

745.  Lannes  P.  Oaks,  lawyer.      Metropolis,  Illinois. 

746.  David  A.  Orebaugh,  lawyer.     Watseka,  Illinois. 

747.  Yeizo  Osawa.     japan. 

748.  Walter  G.  Porter,  lawyer,      Bloomington,   Illinois. 

749.  John  H.  Sargeant.  lawyer.     Whatcom,  Washington. 

750.  John  H.  Schnepp,  lawyer.     Springfield,  Illinois. 

751.  Kashijiro  Tanaka,  teacher  law  school.     Japan. 

752.  John  J.  Willis,  lawyer.      Metropolis,  Illinois. 

753.  Charles  B.  Zimmerman,  lawyer.     Wichita.  Kansas. 

Class   of   1891. 

754.  Homer  Barney,  lawyer.      Lacon,  Illinois. 

755.  John  H.  Chadwick,  lawyer.     Tuscola,  Illinois. 

756.  William  T.  Church,  lawyer.     Aledo,  Illinois. 

757.  George  W.  English,  lawyer,     Vienna,  Illinois. 

758.  Harry  H.  Ewing,  lawyer.     Great  Falls,  Montana. 

759.  Howard  S.  Green,  lawyer.     Great  Falls,  Montana. 

760.  William  G.  Griffith,  lawyer.      Rushville,  Illinois. 

761.  John  J.  Kemp,  Jr.,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

762.  Karl  C.  Loehr.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

763.  Lewis  B.  Probasco,  grain  dealer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

764.  Silas  H.  Reid,  lawyer.      Du  Quoin,  Illinois. 

Rolland  A.  Russell,  lawyer.    Bloomington,  Illinois.    See  No.  312. 


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James  H.  Shaw,  lawyer.     Bloomington.  Illinois.     See  No.  278. 

765.  Alfred  T.  Strawn.  lawyer.      Peoria.  Illinois. 

766.  John  W.  Sudduth.     Springfield.  Illinois. 

767.  Joseph  J.  Thompson,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

768.  Charles  W.  Wiedem.ann,  lawyer.      Harrisburg.   Illinois. 

Class  of  1892. 

769.  Fred  Ball,  lawyer.     Clinton.  Illinois. 

770.  William  H.  Black,  lawyer.     Decatur,  Illinois. 

771.  William  H.  Bracken,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

772.  Walter  B.  Drysdale,  lawyer.     St.  Augustine.  Florida. 

773.  John  Fuller,  lawyer.     Clinton.  Illinois. 

William     Harvey    Hart,    lawyer.       Bloomington,    Illinois.     See 
No.  239 

774.  Effie  Henderson,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

775.  Jesse  E.  Hoffman,  lawyer.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

776.  George  F.  Jordan,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

777.  Edward  B.  Mitchell,  lawyer.     Clinton,  Illinois. 

778.  Edwin  L.  Mitchel.  lawyer.      Listonburg,  Pennsylvania. 

779.  Tsunekichi  Oikawa.     Japan. 

780.  Charles  I.  Will,  lawyer.      Bloomington.  Illinois. 

Class  of    1893. 

781.  William  E.  Adams,  lawyer.     Charleston,  Illinois. 

782.  Warden  Barrere,  lawyer.     Canton.  Illinois. 

783.  John  Bedinger,  lawyer.      Normal,  Illinois. 
78''       James  C.  Burnett,  lawyer.      Eldorado.  Illinois. 


785  S.  Murray  Clark,  lawyer.      Ridge  Farm.  Illinois. 

786.  James  G.  Condon,  lawyer.     Bloomington.  Illinois. 

787.  Byron  Gasaway,  lawyer.      Normal,  Illinois. 

788.  Harry  L.  Kelly,  lawyer.      Fisher,  Illinois. 

789.  John  J.  Ledbetter.  lawyer.     Terre  Haute,  Indiana. 

790.  Adelbert  Lewis,  lawyer.      Pawnee,  Illinois. 

791.  William  L.  Miller,  lawyer.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

792.  Robert  A.  Mooneyham,  lawyer,      Benton,  Illinois. 

793.  Ad.  R.  Oliver,  lawyer.      Kewanee.  Illinois. 

794.  Thomas  L.  Robinson,  lawyer.      Belton.  Missouri. 

795.  George  W.  Trammell,  lawyer.     Poplar  Bluffs,  Missouri. 

796.  George  M.  Wilson,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

797.  David  L.  Wright,  lawyer.     Terre  Haute.  Indiana. 

Class  of    1894. 

798.  William  R.  Bach,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

799.  Willard  Y.  Baker,   lawyer.      Mt.  Sterling.  Illinois. 

800.  Clifford  E.  Beach.      Paxton.  Illinois. 

801.  George  0.  Barnes,  lawyer.      Normal.  Illinois. 

802.  John  M.  Cleary,  lawyer.      Kansas  City.  Missouri. 

803.  Edward  Corlett,  lawyer.     Wilmington,  Illinois. 

804.  William  A.  Covey,  lawyer.      Mason  City,  Illinois. 

805.  Arthur  G.  Davis,  lawyer.      Indianapolis.  Indiana. 

806.  Oliver  B.  Dobbins,  lawyer.     Champaign.  Illinois. 

807.  William  A.  Flack,  lawyer.      Indianapolis,  Indiana. 

808.  Edward  Frey.  lawyer.     Carlinville.  Illinois. 


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HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD. 


809.  Franklin  C.  Funk.  lawyer.     Bluff  City,  Illinois. 

810.  Charles  A.  Finch.     Verona.  Illinois. 

811.  George   E.  Hiner.     Stanford.  Illinois. 

812.  Frank  Kring,  clerk  in  law  office.  Chicago. 

813.  William  H.  Kring.  clerk  in  law  office.  Chicago. 

814.  John  W.  LaCrone.     Faribault.  Minnesota, 

815.  Richard  H.  Little,  with  Chicago  Tribune.     Chicago,  Illinois, 

816.  Sigmund  Livingston,  lawyer.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

817.  Bert  H,  McCann,  lawyer.     Bloomington,  Illinois, 

818.  William  Moore,  lawyer.     Kansas  City.  Missouri. 

819.  Wesley  M.  Owen,  lawyer.      LeRoy.  Illinois. 

820.  John  F.  Regan,  lawyer.     Mt.  Sterling,  Illinois, 

821.  Allen  W,  Wood,  clerk,     Chicago,  Illinois. 

822.  LeRoy  G,  Whitmer.  lawyer.     Bloomington,  Illinois. 

Class  of  1895. 

823.  William  N.  Andrews,  lawyer.     Decatur,  Illinois. 

824.  William  M.  Barnes,  lawyer.     Peoria,  Illinois. 


825.  E,  Thomas  Bunting,  clergyman. 

826.  John  J.  Bell,  lawyer.      Lacon,  Illinois, 

827.  Irving  S.  Banks,  lawyer.      Belvidere,  Illinois, 

828.  Philip  L,  Clancy,  lawyer.      Bloomington.  Illinois, 

829.  Arthur  M.  Conard,  clergyman.      Bloomington,  Illinois, 

830.  Charles  M.  Connor,  lawyer.     Toledo,  Illinois, 

831.  Charles  S,  Cooter.     Toledo,  Illinois, 

832.  Edwin  G.  Creamer,  lawyer.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

833.  Fred  W.  Dawes.     Albion,  Illinois. 

834.  William  G.  Graves,  lawyer,     Cornell,  Illinois, 

835.  Joseph  C.  Ivins,     Quincy,  Illinois.  • 

836.  James  B,  Miller.     Kankakee,  Illinois. 

837.  Thomas  L.  Pollock.      Bloomington,  Illinois. 

838.  Charles  D.  Pitcher.     Troy,  Illinois. 

839.  Deaghlin  G.  Sammon,      Bloomington,  Illinois, 

840.  George  K.  Thompson.      Randolph,  Illinois. 

841.  Hubert  J.  Thompson,  lawyer,      Bloomington,  Illinois. 
William  Wallace  Whitmore, lawyer,    Peoria,  Illinois.  See  No.  539, 


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Degrees  Given  on  ExAniNATiON. 

IThis  list  does  not  include  the  names  of  Alumni  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 


1874. 

842.  John  Pierce  Bobb  (M.  A.,  Dickinson).  Ph.  D.;   clergyman.  1874; 

professor  of  Latin.  Pennington  Seminary. 

843.  Charles  W.  Super   (  M.  A.,  Dickinson),  Ph    D.:  teacher;  presi- 

dent of  Ohio  University.  Athens.  Ohio.     See  page  129. 

1875, 

844.  William  Kepler  (iVl.  A..  O.  W.  U,),  Ph,  D,,  1875, 

845.  Lewis  L.  Rogers  (M.  A..  Asburyi.'Ph.  D.:  teacher. 

1876. 

846.  Henry  C.  Whitney,  M.  A..   Ph.  D..  principal  of  Seminary.  Hack- 

ettstown.  New  Jersey. 

1877. 

847.  John   Wesley  Powell.  M.  A..  Ph.  D.     Washington.   D.   C.    See 

page  87. 

1879. 

848.  Alvin  Sylvester  Zerbee,  M.  A.,  Ph,  D.;  clergyman  :   teacher,  Col- 

legeville,  Pennsylvania. 


1882. 

849.  Henry  McCormick,  M.  A.,  Ph.  D.;  professor  Illinois  State  Nor- 

mal University,  Normal,  Illinois, 

850.  William  John  Smyth  (  B.  A..  Queen's  College,  Kingston,  Ontario): 

Ph,  D,;  clergyman, 

1883. 

851.  Henry  S.  Baker   (B.  A.,   Middlebury  College  i,   M.  A.,  Ph.  D.: 

teacher,  St.  Paul,_Minnesota. 

852.  Edgar  H.  S.  Baily  (  Ph.  B.,  Yale),  Ph    D, 

853.  William  Frear  (  B.  A..  University  of  Louisburgi,  Ph.  D. 

854.  John  Harper  (B.  A..  Halifax  University),  Ph.  D.     Quebec. 

855.  George  Lilley  (M.  A.,  Washington  and  Jefferson),  Ph.  D.     Port- 

land. Oreland.     See  page  143. 

856.  Bradford  S.  Potter  (M.  A.,  Genesee  College).  Ph.  D.     Blooming- 

ton,  Illinois,"  'See  page  89. 

857.  Edward   Payson   Thwing   (  M.  A.,  Harvard),  Ph.  D.:   clergyman. 

New  York  City. 

858.  Alfred    Augustus  Stockton   (B.  A..  M.  A..  Mt,  Allison  College). 

Ph,  D. 


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■    1884. 

859.  Francis    Robert    Beattie.    B.    D.    (B.  A.,  Toronto   University  i. 

(D.  D..  Presbyterian  College.  Montreal.)  Ph.  D  :  clergyman: 
professor  of  Systematic  Theology  and  Apologetics  in  the  Pres- 
byterian Theological  Seminary.  Louisville.  Kentucky.  See 
page  142. 

860.  John  Columbia  Guilett  ( B.  S..  Moore's  Hill).  Ph.  D..  Litchfield. 

Minnesota. 

861  William  Albert  Ryan  >  B.  A..  Michigan  University).  (  LL.  D.. 
Toronto  University;.  Ph  D.  History  and  Ethics:  clergyman; 
author  of  --The  Family  in  Roman  Law"  and  "The  Colonive 
Church;"  now  pastor  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church.  Duluth. 
Minnesota. 

862.  John  Stuart  (B.  A..  Toronto  University).  Ph.  D.     Metaphysics: 

clergyman;  now  in  the  fifth  year  as  president  Central  University 
of  Iowa.  Palla.  Iowa. 

863.  William  Arthur  Strongman  »  B.  A.,  'Victoria  University):   M.  A.. 

Metaphysics.     Colpoy  Bay.  Ontario. 

864.  Charles  Wehrman  (B.  S..  Central  Wesleyan,;  Ph.  D.,  Physics; 

clergyman.     Chester.  Illinois. 

1885. 

865.  David  Young  Bagby  (B.   A..  Georgetown  College,  Ky.):   M.  A.. 

Ph.  D.     Pittsville.  Texas. 

866.  John  W.  Campbell.  (  B.  A..  M.  A..  Toronto  University  i :  Ph.  D.; 

clergyman.     Harrison.  Ontario. 

867.  Charles  Radway  Dryer  (  B.  A..  Hamilton  i.  M.  A.     Fort  Wayne, 

Indiana. 


868.  George  J.  Edgecumbe  (B   A..   'Victoria  College  )  :  M.  A.,  Ph.  D. 

Benton  Harbor.  Michigan. 

869.  Thomas  Fasten  Fleming.  Ph.B.  (M.A.,  Upper  Iowa  University); 

Ph.  D. :  clergyman,  Fayette,  Iowa. 

870.  Charles  W.  Hargitt  (B.  S.,  Moore's   Hill)  :   M.  A.;  clergyman, 

Moore's  Hill,  Indiana. 

871.  George  S.  Innis  (B.  A..  Ohio  Wesleyan  University):  Ph.  D. 

872.  Albert  Gallatin  McCoy  (B.  A.,  Monmouth  College)  :  Ph.  D.;  cler- 

gyman:   one  of  the   leading   .men    in  the   United  Presbyterian 
church.     Chicago,  Illinois. 


873.  Benjamin  Franklin  (  B.  A.,  Victoria  University):  M.  A.,  Ph.  D. ; 

clergyman,  M.  E.  church.      North  Lancing,  New  York. 

874.  William   Henry  Jamison   (B.    A.,    M.   A.,  'Victoria  University): 

Ph.   D.,   Philosophy;    clergyman,   Presbyterian  church.      Blen- 
heim, Ontario. 

875.  Thomas  M.  Macintyre  (B.  A.,  M.  A.,  Toronto  University);  Ph.  D. 

Toronto,  Canada.     See  page  144. 

1887, 

876.  John  James   Hare   (B.  A.,  Victoria  College):   Ph.  D.,  Geology. 

Governor  and  principal  of  Ontario's   Ladies'  College.     Whitby, 
Ontario. 

877.  Daniel  C.  Macintyre  (B,  A.,  Albert  University);  Ph.  D.,  Philos- 

ophy:  clergyman,   Presbyterian  church.      Beamsville,  Ontario. 

878.  James  McNaughton  (B.  A.,  Allegheny  College),   M.  A.,  Mathe- 

matics; teacher  of  Pedagogics.     Council  Bluffs,  Iowa. 


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879.  James  E.  Pilcher  (  B.  A..  Michigan  University  i.  M.  A.,   Ph.    D..  890. 

Biology.      Fort  Custer,  Montana. 

880.  George  Clifton  Russell  (  B.  S..  Hiram  College),   M.  A.;  teacher. 

Petuluma,  California. 

881.  John  Wesley  Powell,  M.  A..  Ph.  D..  1863. 

1888. 

882.  Thomas   Proctor   Hall,  (B.   A.,   University  of  Toronto),   Ph.  D., 

Chem.istry;   teacher.     Woodstock.  Ontario. 

883.  Alvirus   Nelson   Hitchcock,  (B.    A..   University  of  Wisconsin), 

Ph.  D.,  Christian  Evidences:  clergyman;  secretary  American 
Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions  for  the  District 
of  the  Interior  Division;  pastor  Congregational  church,  Chicago, 
834,  Afred  Sydney  Johnson  (  B.  A.,  University  of  Toronto),  Ph.  D., 
Metaphysics;  1837- 1890,  President  Seminary,  Denmark,  Iowa  ; 
editor  Current  History,  a  cyclopedic  review  of  current  history. 
Buffalo.  New  York 

885.  John  McLean  (B.  A.,  Victoria  College),  Ph.  D.,  Modern  History; 

clergyman.      Fort  McLeod,  Northwest  Territory. 

886.  James   H.    Montgomery    (B.    A..   Allegheny   College),    Ph.    D., 

Chemistry;  professor  in  Allegheny  College.      Meadville,  Penn- 
sylvania. 

887.  James  A.  Moore  (  B.  A.,  Southern  University),  Ph.  D.,    Mathe- 

matics; professor  Mathematics  and  Astronomy.  Southern  Uni- 
versity, Greensboro,  Alabama. 

888.  George  J.    A.   Thompson   (  B.   A..   McGill   University),   M.  A., 

Ph.  D.,  Christian  Evidences;  clergyman.      Montreal.  Quebec. 

889.  William  Edward  Tilley  (B.  A.,  Victoria  College),  Ph.  D..  Modern  399. 

History;   Bellville,  Ontario, 


891. 

892. 
893. 
894. 
895. 
896. 
897. 

898. 


James  Edward  Wilkinson  (B.  A.,  Harvard),  Ph.  D..  Modern 
History;  school  inspector;  head  of  Akeley  institute,  school  for 
girls.  Grand  Haven.  Michigan. 

1889. 

James  Monroe  Green  (M.  A.,  Dickinson  College).  Ph,  D.,  Phi- 
losophy and  Pedagogics;  teacher. 

1890. 

Frank  Gillespie  Brown  (  B.  A.,  DePauw  University  i.  Ph.  D.; 
clergyman.      Howden,  New  York. 

John   G.  Henderson    (  B.  A.,    Upper   Iowa   University,),   Ph.   D.. 

Physics;  clergyman.  M.  E.  church.     Junction  City.  Kansas. 
Goshen   Branch    Howie    (  L.  A..   Edinburgi.   Ph.    D.      Brussels, 

Ontario. 
John  C,  Jackson  (  B.  A.,  Ohio  University;.   Ph.  D. ;   clergyman. 

Columbus.  Ohio. 

Norman    Macdonald    (  LL.    B..   Trinity   and  Victoria).    Ph.   D.. 

Political  Science.     St.  Thomas,  Ontario. 
David  Alexander  Maxwell   (  B.  A.,  Toronto  University).  Ph.  D., 

Political  Science ;  teacher;    superintendent  of  training  school 

for  teachers.     Amherstburg.  Ontario. 
William  Henry  Putnam  (M.  A.,   Pennsylvania  College;,  Ph.  D.; 

Publisher,  Potter  and   Putnam,  44   E.  Fourteenth  Street.  New 

York  City. 

1891. 

Freeman  Daily  Bovard  (B.  A..Asburyj.  Ph.  D.  San  Francisco, 
California. 


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HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD. 


900.  Wilbur  Fisk  Dales  (B.  A..  Wesleyan  University).  Ph.  D.,  Greek; 

teacher,  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

901.  Duncan  McDonald  '  B.  A.,  Queen's  College  ),  Ph.  D,,  Christian  Evi- 

dences: c'.ergyman.  Presbyterian  church.    Carleton  Place.  On- 
tario. 

902.  John  Augustus   Roebling   (C.  E..   Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Insti- 

tute). M.  A.,  Physics.     Troy,   New  York. 

903.  Fredrick  Eugene   Stratton    (  B.  A.,   Williams  College).  Ph.D.. 

Biology  and  Pedagogics:   principal,  and  teacher  of  Greek  and 
Latin,  Carleton  College,  Northfield,  Minnesota. 

904.  Samuel  Wier,  (B.  A..  Northwestern  University),  Ph.  D.:  clergy- 

man, studied  in  Europe:    1895.  elected  professor  of  history  and 
philosophy.  University  of  the  City  of  New  York. 

905.  Charles  Gershom  White  (M.  A..  Battle  Creek),  Ph    D.,  Physics: 

Lake  Linden,  Michigan. 

1892. 

906.  Richard  Gear  Hobbs(B.  A..  M.  A.,  Northwestern   University). 

Ph.  D.:  clergyman.  Illinois  Conference,  Decatur.  Illinois. 

907.  J.  M.   Larmour  (B.  A.,  Victoria  University],   Ph,  D.,  Christian 

Evidences.     Gananoque,  Ontario. 

908.  Thomas  Wilson   McVety   (B.  A.,  Victoria  University),  Ph.  D., 

Christian  Evidences:  clergyman.  Peoria.  Illinois.    Seepage  146, 
909      Frank   W.   Merrill   (B.   A.,   Northwestern   University;,  Ph.    D., 

Philosophy:  clergyman.  Rock  Island,  Illinois. 
910.     Edwin  A.  Schell  (B.  A.,  Northwestern   University),  Ph.  D.,  His- 
tory and   Philosophy:  clergyman;    general  secretary    Epworth 
League.  M.  E.  Church.     57  Washington  Street,  Chicago. 


1893. 

911.  Alfred  Franklin   Dreisbach   (B.  A..  Franklin  and   Marshall  Col- 

lege). Ph.  D.,  Philosophy.     Silver  Run,  Maryland. 

912.  George  Griffith  (A.  B,,  Hamilton  College),  Ph.  D.,  Pedagogics. 

Utica,  New  York. 

913.  Grace  Raymond  Hebard  (B.  A.,  M.  A.,  Iowa  University),  Ph.  D., 

Political  Science ;  secretary   Board   of   Regents,   University  of 
Wyoming.      Laramie,  Wyoming. 

914.  William  Wirt  King(B.  A..  Scio   College).    Ph,  D. ;   clergyman. 

St.  Louis  Conference,  St,  Louis,  Missouri. 

915.  William    L.  Montague   (  B.  A.,  Amherst),   Ph.  D.  ;  professor  of 

Modern   Languages  in  Amherst  College,  Amherst,  Massachu- 
setts, 

1894. 

916.  David    H.  Sergey    (B.  S.,    M.  D.,    University   of   Pennsylvania), 

Ph.  D.      Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

917.  William   Dell   Bigelow   (B.   A.,    Amherst).    Ph.   D,,  Chemistry; 

teacher.     Washington,  District  of  Columbia. 

918.  William  Radebaugh  (  B.  A.,  Grant  University),  Ph    D.;   teacher, 

Creighton,  Nebraska 

919.  Richard   Henry  Willis  ( M.    A.,  University  of  Virginia),   Ph.   D., 

Latin  and  Greek.      Fayetteville,  Arkansas. 

920.  James  Isaac  Bartholomew  (B.  A.,  Lawrence  University),  Ph.D., 

Christian     Evidences     and     Philosophy.       Stafford     Springs, 
Connecticut. 

921.  Z.  Willis   Kemp   (B.  A.,  Bowdoin),   Ph.  D.,  Latin;  professor  of 

Latin,     Springfield,  Massachusetts, 


LLINOIS    WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 


UNJVBRirrY  gr^  iiJf^ 


p^nnuiutvcmrv-% 


Honorary.  Pro  Merito  and  Ad  Eundem  Oraduh  Deqrees. 


Aldrich.  Orlando  W..  D.  C.  L.,  1881. 

Badger.  I.  A..  M.  A..  1873;  professor  in  Hedding  College. 

Barnes.  Rev.  R.  M.,  D.  D..  1883. 

Benjamin,  Hon  Reuben  M..  LL.  D.,  1880. 

Boyd.    Mrs.   Ella   Francis.   Ph.  B..  ad  eundum  gradum.    1892.      Hyde 

Park.  Massachusetts. 
Bradin.  Rev.  John.  D.  D.,  1884. 
Bronk.  Isabelle,  Ph.  D.,  ad  eundum  gradum.  1893.     Schnectady.  New 

York. 
Buck.  Rev.  D.  D.,  D.  D.,  1866. 
Byerly,  Rev.  Alexander  C,  M.  A..  D.  D..  1894. 
Chaffee,  Rev.  J.  P..  D.  D..  1883. 
Chambers,  Rev.  Andrew  Busted.  (  LL.  B.,  B.C.  L..  McGill  University'), 

Ph.  B.  ad  eundum  gradum.  1880. 
Clark,  Rev.  Hyre  D.,  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  1893. 
Clark.  Rev.  W.  W..  D,  D..  1880. 
Clark,  William  G..  Ph.  B.  ad  eundum  gradum.,  (Princeton;,  M.  A.,  on 

examination,  1894.     Chicago,  Illinois. 
Crooks.  Rev.  William,  D.  D.,  1867 

Cullen,  Rev.  John,  M.  A.,  D.  D.,  1893.      Nottingham.  England. 
Cunningham,  William   Luke   (B.  A..  Rutherford  College),   Ph.   B.  ad 

eundem  gradum;   M,  A.,  1839;  clergyman. 
Daniels,  W.  H.,  M.  A..  1870;  clergyman. 
Davis,  Hon.  David.  LL.  D..  1865. 


Dean,  J.  A.,  M.  A.,  1373;  president  East  Tennessee  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity. 

Dillon,  Thomas  H.,  M.  A.,  pro  merito  1879. 

Eads,  Rev.  J.  R.,  M.  A.,  1867. 

Edgar,  James  Douglass,  Ph.  B..  ad  eundem  gradum.  1892.  Lynedoch. 
Ontario. 

English,  Rev.  D.  A..  M.  A.,  pro  merito,  1876. 

Fleharty,  Rev.  J.  J.,  M.  A.,  pro  merito,  1878. 

Galbraith.  Rev.  William  (  B.  A..  University  of  Toronto).  Ph.  B.  ad 
eundum  gradum,  1890;   M.  A.,  Ph.  D.  on  examination;  clergyman. 

Gracey.  Rev   S.  L.,  D.  D.,  1885. 

Groves,  William,  Ph.  B.  ad  eundem  gradum.  1892.     Evanston.  Illinois. 

Hamill,  Prof.  S.  S..  M    A.,  pro  merito,  1873. 

Hawes,  Rev.  M.  D.,  M.  A.,  pro  merito,  1876 

Hervey.  Hon.  Thomas,  LL.  D.,  1883. 

Hoenshel,  Eli  S..  M.  A.,  pro  merito    1877. 

Holder,  Richard  H..  B.  S.,  M.  A.,  1861. 

Howland.  Thomas,  Ph.  B.  ad  eundem  gradum,  1892.   Tremont,  Illinois. 

Hughes,  L.  J..  M.  A.,  pro  merito;   clergyman 

Huffaker,  Rev.  S.  J.    M.  A.,  pro  merito.  1881. 

Hull,  John,  M.  A.,  pro  merito,  1876. 

Ives,  Rev.  Beoni  I.,  D.  D..  1880. 

Kelso,  Robert  Sylvester  (  B.  A.,  Pleasant  Ridge  College  i.  Ph.  B..  ad 
eundem  gradum.  1889. 


202 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD. 


Kerrick.  Hon.  Thomas  C.  M.  A.,  pro  merito,  1893. 

King.  William  F..  D.  D..  president  Cornell  College.  Iowa.  1870. 

Koch.  H..  M.  A.,  principal  Warrenton  Institute.  1868. 

Law.  Robert  (  B.  A..  Victoria  University  i.  Ph.  B.  ad  eundum  gradum, 

1888. 
Leaton.  Rev.  James.  D.  D..  1874. 
Lyda.  Rev.  A.  J..  D.  D..  1873. 
Little.  Rev.  J.  G..  pro  merito,  1875. 

Loebinstein.  A..  M.  A.,  professor  German.  Wallace  College.  1868. 
Logan.  S.  F..  LL.  D..  1869. 
McChesney.  Rev.  S.,  M.  A.,  pro  merito,  1875. 
McCormick.  Henry.  M.  A.,  pro  merito.  1880. 
McElroy.  Rev.  William  Nev/ton.  D.  D..  1880. 
McNutt.  Rev.  Patterson.  D.  D..  1880. 
Miller.  Rev.  Egbert  L..  D.  D..  1887. 
Minier.  Philip  N..  M.  A.,  clergyman.  1870. 
Montgomery.  Henry  (  B.  A..  University  of  Toronto),   Ph.  B.  ad  eundum 

gradum.  1887. 
Orme,  Thomas  Hughes.  M.  A.,  pro  merito.  1879. 
Palmer.  Rev.  George  R..  D.  D..  1882. 
Palmer,  Hon.  John  M..  LL.  D..  1869. 
Peck.  George  W..  M.  A.,  pro  merito,  1879. 
Phillips.  Hon.  1.  N..  M.  A.,  pro  merito,  1893. 
Phillips.  Hon.  Judge  Jesse  J..  LL   D..  1880. 
Rawlins.  Rev.  B.  F..  D.  D..  1868. 
Roe.  E.  R..  M.  D..  M.  A.,  1854. 
Sanford,  Amelia  E..  M.  A.,  pro  merito.  1875. 
Sargent.  James,  pro  merito.  1876. 
Skinner,  Daniel  Spencer  (  B.  A..   University  of  Toronto  i.  Ph.  B.  ad 

eundem  gradum.  1887. 


Smith.  Rev.  Jesse,  M.  A..  1867. 

Smith,    Rev.    Philander.   D.   D..   Bishop    Methodist   Episcopal  church. 

Canada,  1863. 
St.  Clair,  Rev.  Peter.  M.  A.,  1874. 
Stevens,  Right  Rev.  Bishop  P.  F..  D.  D.,   Reformed  Episcopal  church, 

1889.     Charleston,  South  Carolina. 
Thomson,  A.  H.,  M.  A..  U.  S.  serv^ice.  with  Powell-Thomson  Exploring 

Expedition,  1873. 
Tinsley,  Rev.  Charles,  M.  A..  1867. 
Van  Pelt,  Rev   Samuel.  D.  D..  1891. 
Vasey.  George.  M.  D..  M.  A.,  1869. 

Vogel.  George  G.,  Ph.  B.  ad  eundem  gradum.      Patterson.  New  jersey. 
Vernon,  Horace  Kelley.  Ph.  B.  ad  eundem  gradum,  1892.      Marseilles, 

Illinois. 
Wallace,  D.  A.,  LL.  D.,  president  Monmouth  College,  1871. 
Wayman.  Rev.  John,  M.  A.,  1874. 
Webster,  Rev.  Thomas,  D.  D.,  1874. 
Weld,  Cynthia  A..  M.  A.,  pro  merito.  1878. 
Weldon,  Hon.  Lawrence,  LL.  D..  1890 

Wheeler,  D.  E.,  M.  A.,  principal  Grand  Prairie  Seminary,  1869. 
Whitlock.  Rev.  Elias,  D.  D.,  1886. 

Wilbur,  C.  F.,  M.  A.,  professor,  1880.     Jacksonville,  Illinois. 
Wilder.  William   H.,  D.  D.,  1888. 
Wilson,  D.,  M.  D.,  M.  A.,  1853. 

Wilson,  D,  P,,  M.  A.,  professor,  Hedding  College,  1869. 
Wilson,  Rev.  James  Oliver,  D.  D.,  1890. 
Wood.  Rev.  J.  P..  M.  A.,  1874. 
Wright,  Rev.  G.  W.  T..  D.  D.,  1864. 


ILLINOIS    WES  LEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 


203 


AirHABETICAL    IMDEX. 


Abney,  Albert   G 710 

Adams.    Grace 507 

Adams.    Willism  C 5 

Adams,  Charles  C 542 

Adams,  Eli  P. 101 

Adams,   William    E 787 

Ader,  Frank  D 677 

Albert,  James    L 654 

Albin,  Mary   R 352 

Aldrich.  Orlando  W 41 

Allen,   Freeman    Harlow. ..  .543 

Allen,  William  Wesley 291 

Allan,  John  S 734 

Allison,  Samuel  Buell 508 

Allyn,  John  M 605 

Andrews,  William  W 823 

Applebee,  Jabez  0 1 00 

Armstrong,  P.  M 131 

Armstrong,   William  C 474 

Arnold,  Harry  L 711 

Arnold,  John  Sheaffer 445 

Artz.  George  L 604 

Atherton,    Charles 42 

Auer,  Melchior 53 

Ayers,  John  T 85 

Ayers.   Frank  D 735 

Ayers,   Hiram   N 8 

Bach,  William  R 798 


Badger,  1.  A p.  201 

Bagby,  David  Young 865 

Bailey,    Edgar  S.  H 852 

Bailey,  Charles  Reuben 323 

Baker,  Henry  Sylvester 85  1 

Baker.  Willard  Y 799 

Baker,    Benjamin  Webb--.    89 

Baldwin,  Florence 292 

Balfour,  Carlton  Montville. .  .353 

Ballance,  George  W 668 

Ballard,  Asa  Howard 244 

Ball,  Asher  C 683 

Ball,  Frederick 769 

Banta,   Andrew  J 27 

Banks,   Irving  S  827 

Eardwell,  Eugene  Orville.  •  ■  475 

Barger,  Richard  W 58 

Barger,  James  H 1 

Barger,   John  W 606 

Barnes, George  0 801 

Barnes,  Philip  W 639 

Barnes,  R.  M   p.  201 

Barnes.  Richard  M 669 

Barnes,  William  Eddy 70 

Barnes.  William  M 824 

Barney.  Homer 754 

Barrere.  Warden 782 

Barrickman.  Charles  Milan.. 293 


Barry.    Edward 702 

Barr.  Andrew  J 684 

Bates,  Lucy 509 

Bartholo,  Otho  Ford 354 

Bartholomew,  James  Isaac  .  -920 

Barton,    George  W 12 

Battisby,John  Roe( omitted  )p.2 10 

Baumann,  John  V.  W 9 

Baumann,  Rachel 324 

Beach,  Clifford  E 800 

Beahm ,  Margaret  W 210 

Beattie.  Francis  Robert 859 

Beavis.  Arthur  Johnson 149 

Bedinger,  John 783 

Beggs,  Abram    Epier 28 

Bell,  John  J 826 

Benedict,  Edward  E 690 

Benjamin.  Martha 86 

Benjamin,  DeWitt  C 87 

Benjamin.  R.  M p.  201 

Bennett.  Arthur  H 657 

Bennett.  John  H 117 

Bent.  Horatio  Grimes 171 

Bergey,  David  H 916 

Bigler.  Edward  Albin 266 

Bigler.  Cyrus  Edward 446 

Bigelow.  William  Dell 917 

Birch.    Henry  C 55 


Bishop.  Francis  Marion 54 

Bird.  Robert  E 544 

Black.  William  H 770 

Blackwell.  William  R 44 

Blair.  William  E 510 

Blandin.  F.  B 640 

Blandin,  Fremont  Charles-  • . .  187 

Blazer.  James  M 88 

Bloodgood.  John  Davis 211 

Blue.  William  P -655 

Bsbb,  John  Pierce 842 

Boggess,  John  W 21 

Bohn.  Charles  H 422 

Booth,  William  Benjamin. .  .355 

Booth,  William  H 76 

Bosworth,   Richard 102 

Bovard.  Freeman   Daily 899 

Boyce,  Henry  Moses 169 

Boyd,  Mrs.  Ella  Frances. .p.  201 

Boyd,  Henry  W 6 

Bracken,  William   H 771 

Bradford,  Mary   E 170 

Brandon,  William 447 

Breed,  Dwight   Payson 356 

Bredin.  John p.  201 

Brethour,  David   Lodwick. .  .325 

Brenen.  William 723 

Brewer.  Ada 511 


204 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD, 


Briney.  j.  C 685 

Brittain.  Anhur 736 

Britton.  David  Wesley 512 

Brock.  Enoch 69 1 

Bronk.  isabelle p.  201 

Brooks.  Windle 712 

Brooks.  Rhynaldo  J 43 

Brooks.  John  A 118 

Brown.  John  J 641 

Brown.  John  Sylvester 384 

Brown.  Alice  E 326 

Brown.  Wyley  L 642 

Brown,  Lyman  Strickland.  • -385 

Brown.  Asa  Irwin 476 

Brown.  Frank  Gillespie 892 

Brown.  Orion  K -656 

Brown.  Lee  Oneil 729 

Brown.  William    N 737 

Brown.  Robert   H 607 

Brush.  W.  F 267 

Buck.  Fred  L 545 

Buck.  Rev  .  D.  D p.  201 

Bull.  James  Morris 294 

Bunting.  E.  Thomas 825 

Burnett.  James  C 784 

Burnett.  Samuel  T 513 

Burnett.  Arthur  H 657 

Burns.  Robert 245 

Burres.  Joseph  R 686 

Burritt.  Jacob  Lafayette 233 

Burr.  Louis  L 608 

Byerly.  Alexander  C 59 

Cadman.  Samuel  P  546 

Cadwell.  Herbert  S 514 

Caldwell,  David  N 46 

Cameron.  William  Fletcher.. 448 


Campbell.  Charles  Wesley. . .  188 

Campbell.  John  W 866 

Campbell.   Lewis 327 

Campbell.  Wesley  F 423 

Cannell.    Robert  J 692 

Carr.  Arthur  Thomas 386 

Carr.  William  Montgomery. -234 

Carmichael,  j.  A 246 

Carroll,  Hugh 643 

*Caswell,     David    Johnstone 

(omitted)  p.  210 

Cattermole.  Edward  G 268 

Caviness.  Anson  Lorenzo  —  387 

Chadwick.  John  H 755 

Champion.  Edward  D 357 

Chambers.  Martin  A 670 

Chambers.  Andrew  Busted. p.  201 

Chaffee.  Rev.  J.  F  p.  201 

Chaffee,  Amasa  Franklin. ..  388 

Chenoworth.  Josephine 269 

Chesney.  Elijah 328 

Church.  William  T 756 

Clark.  S.  Murray 785 

Clark,  George 389 

Clark.  John  D 644 

Clark,  William  G p.  201 

Clark.  W.  W p.  201 

Clark,  Hyre  D p.  201 

Cline,  William  Thomas 449 

Cline,  William  H 146 

Clansey,  Philip  L 828 

Cleary.John  M 802 

Cober.  Alvln  Alonzo 547 

Cochrane.  Mary 235 

Coffin,  Alfred  O 329 

Cole.  Joseph  R 45 


Coffey,  H.  Leon 620 

Cole,  Carrie  Lena .425 

Cole,  Charles  Nelson 515 

Collins,  Charles  E 330 

Collins,  William  T 10 

Coleman,  Francis  Marion. .  •  -548 

Conard,  Arthur  Melville 247 

Condon .  James  G 786 

Connor.  Charles  M 830 

Colvin,  Joseph  L 587 

Cook,  Joseph  Simpson 424 

Cook,  John 609 

Cook.  Charles  1 725 

Cooler,  Charles  S 831 

Corley.   DeWitt  C 132 

Corley.  Dexter  W 221 

Corlett,  Edward 803 

Cornish.  Joseph  Webster.  ..•  150 

Cottrell. William  N 426 

Covey.  William  A 804 

Council.  LaFayette 658 

Coultas,  Thomas  1 103 

Coultas,  J.'Ames  Wilson 104 

Cowen,  Mary  Theresa 248 

Craig.  William  P 713 

Craig,  Charles  C 714 

Crane,  Frank 477 

Creamer.   Edwin  G 832 

Crago,  Kate  Conant 200 

Crews.  Richard 172 

Crooks,  William p,  201 

Crum,  George  W 80 

Crum,  Marcus  L 91 

Crumbaker.  Marion  V 90 

Cullen,  Rev.  John p.  201 

Gumming.  Franc  H 105 


Cummings,  George  Millard..  173 

Cunningham,  W.  L p.  201 

Cunningham,  Gilmore 133 

Cupples.  James  William 358 

Curl,   Martin  Luther 189 

Curtis,  Samuel  B 621 

Cyrus,  Helen  Mary 359 

Dales,  Wilbert  Fisk 900 

Dana,  Myron  Tuttle 296 

Daniel,  George 332 

Daniels,  W.  H p.  201 

Darnell,  Carrie  May 390 

Darrah,  Delmar  Duane  391 

David,  William  E 679 

Davidson,   Stamper  Q 34 

Davidson,  John  Morgan 295 

Davidson,  Stephenson  0 703 

Davies,  Alexander  H 79 

Davis,  Abiah  B 249 

Davis,  John  W 678 

Davis,  Hon.  David p.  201 

Davis,  Arthur  G 805 

Dawes,  Fred  W 833 

Dawson,  Thomas  Henry 212 

Day,  Isaac 361 

Daan,  J,  A p.  201 

Deavor.  Edward  Evans  A... 250 

Deavor.  Joseph  D 331 

Da  Motte,  Harvey  C 3 

Denning.  Valentine   B 36 

Denning,  John  W 60 

Denning,  John  Otis 201 

Depue,  Aaron  T 738 

Deutsch,  John  Frederick  A.. 450 

Devitt,  Theophilus  S 392 

Diamond,    Frank 427 


ILLINOIS    WES  LEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 


205 


Dillon.  Thomas  M p.  201 

Dill.  George  William 428 

Dimmitt,  Lillie  English 333 

Dobbins.  Oliver  B 806 

Dollarhide.  Charles  R 645 

Donnelly.  Edward  Everett- .  .213 

Dreisbach,  Alfred  F 911 

Dryer.  Charles  Radway 867 

Drysdale.  Walter  S 772 

Dunlap.    Harvey  L 726 

Dunn.  Charles  H.  S 151 

Dyckes.  William  James 35 

Eads.  J.  R  p.  201 

Ebaugh,  Asbury   N 362 

Eberle,  W.  W.  S 659 

Edgar.  John  P 478 

Edgar,  James  Douglas  —  p.  201 

Edgecumbe.  George  J 868 

Edwards,  Andrew  W 25 1 

Ehrenstein,  John 393 

Elliott,  Walter  H 363 

English,  George  W 757 

English,  Edward  C 236 

English.  John  T 660 

English.  Rev.  D.  A p.  201 

Erling.  Peter  R  (omitted).p.  210 

Etter,  Mary  F 134 

Evans,  Winslow 119 

Everly,  Lu  Lester 360 

Ewmg,  Harry  H 758 

Ficklin,  Orlando  B.,  Jr 622 

Fifer,  Joseph  W 37 

Finch,  Charles  E 810 

Finnemore,  Joseph 334 

Fisher,  John  Alonzo 190 

Fisher.    Edward  J 646 


Fitzgerald,  Joseph 451 

Flack.   William  A 807 

Fleeharty,  Jesse  J p.  201 

Fleming.  Thomas  Easton-  • .  869 

Floyd,  Lyman  Covell 214 

Ford.  Eugene  A 623 

Franklin.  Benjamin 873 

Frear.  William 853 

Frey,  Edward 808 

Frizzell.  William 2'^2 

Frizzelle,  Jacob   Wellington!    0 

Fuller,  John 429 

Fuliinwider.   Marcus   L 61 

Fullinwider,  Samuel  T 92 

Fuliinwider,  James  Allen.  •■2  15 
Fullinwider,    Elizabeth  H- .. -479 

Fulton.  S.  C 152 

Fulwiler,  William  D 647 

Funk.  Clara  M 202 

Funk,  Franklin  C 809 

Funkhouser.   Alonzo  J 452 

Funkhouser,  Andrew  J 66 1 

Gable,  Israel  Miller 394 

Gabriel.   Sulveanus  S 430 

Galbraith,  William p.  201 

Gallagher,  John 191 

Gardiner.   Joseph  A 739 

Gassaway ,  Byron 787 

Gay,  David 185 

Gay,  William  H 237 

Gee,  Abram  L 364 

Gerowe,  George  E 222 

Gibson,  Horace 253 

Giddings,  Frederick  J 517 

Giddings,  Josephine 1 76 

Gilbert,  Newell  D 174 


Gilbert.  Thomas  Henry 516 

Gilbreath.  William  C 93 

Gillan,  David  H 203 

Gillan,  Silas  J 297 

Gillespie,  George  B 704 

Glenn, Joseph  R 17 

Godshalk,    Anna    Rosina 395 

Goldsmith,  Stephen 175 

Gooding.   Frances  May 396 

Goodspeed.  Charles 662 

Goodspeed.  Samuel  F 663 

Goodwin.  Charles  W 740 

Gracey .  Rev.  S.  L p.  20 1 

Graff.  Edward  C 298 

Grant,  James  M 106 

Gray,  Henry 397 

Graves.  William  G 834 

Graves.  Walter  H 94 

Graves.  William  F 71 

Green.  James  Monroe 238 

Green.    Reed 693 

Green.  Howard  S 759 

Gregory,  Abner 147 

Grove,  Elizabeth  Ann 335 

Grove.  Alice 550 

Groves.  William p.  201 

*Griffith,    Thomas p.  210 

Griffith.  William  G 760 

Griffith.  Price 687 

Griffith.  George 912 

Griffith.  Albert  W 549 

Gullett,  John  C 860 

Gwynn.   Edward  Storer 270 

Haggard,  Fred  P 271 

Hamill.  S.  S p.  201 

Hainline,  Mary  Morilla 399 


Hainline,  Carry  Malintha 398 

Haines.  Arthur  B 453 

Hall.  Josephine 121 

Hall,  Thomas  Proctor 882 

Hall.  Lester  H 588 

Hamilton.  George  N 727 

Hand.  Nellie 400 

Hannahs,  E.  Helen 454 

Hanna,  Leslie  Philander 365 

Harding.  John.  Jr 694 

Hargitt.  Charles  W 870 

Harris.  David  Madison 29 

Harris.    Henry   H 367 

Harris.  William 480 

Hare.  John  James 876 

Harley,  Louis  Reifsnider  —  455 

Harnly.  Henry  J 431 

Harnly.  Andrew   Hoerner.  .  .366 
Harnsberger.  William  H  ....  67 1 

Harper.  John 854 

Harpole  Alice 216 

Hart.  William  Harvey 239 

Hartley.  John  W 610 

Hartzell,  Joseph  Crane 38 

Haslup.  Ida  Belle 518 

Hastings.  George  Henry  ....  401 

Hastings.   Holman   K 301 

Hawes.    Mark  D p.  201 

Haworth.  William  E 629 

Hay.  George  N 272 

Haynie.  William  D 589 

Hay.  Lewis  C 695 

Hazenwinkle.  Charles  A.  .  .  .    77 
Hebard.  Grace  Raymond..  .913 

Helm.   Dougl.:^s  W 664 

Henderson.  Effie 774 


206 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD. 


Henderson.  Frank   R 648 

Henderson.  John  G 893 

Henry.  Delia 107 

Henry.  Hattie 551 

Henry.  Edward  D 368 

Henry.  Ruth 552 

Herron.  Emma 240 

Hervey.  Thomas p.  201 

Hickman.  Richard  Owen ....  1 53 

Hickman.  Caivin  W 223 

Hickman.  Mary  L 481 

Higbee.  William  E 224 

Hill.  Jonathan  Albert 456 

Hill.  George  A 630 

Hinar.  George  E 811 

Hitchcock.  Alvirus  Nelson.. 883 

Hobbs.  Richard  Gaar 906 

Hoblit.  James  S 13 

Hoenshel.  Eii  S   p.  201 

Hoffman.  Jesse  E 775 

Hoffman.  George  L 597 

Holbert.  John  H 18 

Holcomb.  Homer  Britton  ...  1 35 

Holder.  Charles  W p.  201 

Holder.  James  W 78 

Holly.  Edgar  P 696 

Holmes.   Ralph 553 

Hopkins.  Judbon 554 

Hopson.  Ethel 555 

Hornbeck.  Marquis  D 136 

Horn.  Frank  Luther 482 

Horney.  John  Franklin 457 

Howland.  Thomas p.  20 1 

Howie.  Goshen  Branch 894 

Howe.  George  H 369 

Howell.  H.  W 7 


Hotsenpiiler.  Mary  E 483 

Hoxie.  J.  Benjamin 728 

Huey.  Vergil  Linn 458 

Huffaker.  S.  J p.  201 

Hufford.  Marion  F 705 

Hughes.  L.  J p.  201 

Hull.  George  W 272 

Hull.  John p.  201 

Hulsart.  J.  Howard 556 

Hulse.  Edward  Connor 402 

Hundley,  Zechariah 598 

Hutchin.  George  L 122 

Hutchinson.  Samuel 432 

Hyde,  Benjamin  F 154 

Ijams.  Lewis  C 665 

Innis,  George   S 87  1 

Israel.  Charles  W 649 

Ives.  Rev.  B.I    p.  201 

Ivins,  Joseph  C 835 

Jackman,  Frederick  Osborne. 299 

Jackman,   Frank 599 

Jackson.  John  C 895 

James.  Edmund  S 155 

James,  John  H.  T 583 

Jamison,  William  H 874 

Jay.  Mary  Laity 557 

lohnson.  Edwin  Morris 30 

Johnson,  James  Albert 71 

Johnson.    Murray  Levering  ..  225 

Johnson,  Alfred  Sydney 884 

Johnson.  William   H 484 

Johnson,  Herbert  Buell 559 

Jones,   William  Anwyl 217 

Jordan,  Edward  Fletcher.  .  .  .336 

Jordan.  George   F 776 

Kanaga,  Mary  F 1 37 


Kaye,  James  Ross 

Keenan,  Walter  M 

Keeslar,  John  W 

Kelley,   Hatry  L 

Kelley,  James  A 

Kellock,   David 

Kelso,  Robert  Sylvester,  .p. 

Kemp.  John  J.,  Jr 

Kemp.  Z.  Willis 

Kennedy,  Richard  W 

Kent.  David  W 

Kenward,  Ira  W 

Kepler,   William 

Keplinger,  Lewis  Walker.  .  , 
Keplinger.  Martin   Luther.  .  . 

Kepoel.  David 

Kerrick.  Leonidas  H 

Kerrick.  Thomas  C p. 

Kerrick.  William  Henry.  .  .  , 

Kerrick,  Phebe 

Ketron,  Joseph  H 


King,  William  F p. 

King,  William  Wirt 

King,  George   Darwin 

Kingsberry,  Joseph  Thomas 

Kinnman,  Manford  E 

Kirkpatrick,  fames  Oscar.  .  . 

Kirkpatrick.  Elbert  M 

Kirn,  George  John 

Kitchen,  Joseph   L 

Knapo.  Charles  E. 

Kneeland,  Edith 

Krch,  H p. 

Kring,  Frank. 

Kring  William  H 

Kuhl,  Lydia  Melinda 


485  Kuhl,  Mary  H 124 

590  LaCrone,  John 814 

715  Lackland,  Melvin  Porter, ...  156 

788  Lackland,  Leonard  E 519 

63  Lambert,  Russ 74 1 

254  .  Landon,  Eugene 459 

201  Lane,  Frederick   Hiram..  ..560 

761  Lanning,  W.  H 624 

921  Lapham,  Martin  Akers 14 

138  Larmour.  J.  M 907 

697  Lavers,  Enoch   Cook 303 

339  Law,  Robert p.  202 

844  Lawrence,  John  F 729 

39  Lawrence,  Libbie 157 

47  Leaton,  James p.  202 

337  Leach,  John  J 340 

22  Ledbetter,  John   J 789 

202  Lenig,  Frank 34 1 

300  Lewis,  Adelbert 790 

486  Lee,  Albert 403 

1 23  Libby,  Charles  E 304 

202  Liddy,  James 56 1 

9  1 4  Lilley,  George 855 

192  Lindley,  Jacob  P p.     94 

,433  Lindsey,  William   W 158 

672  Little,  J,  G   p.  202 

338  Little,  Richard  H 815 

487  Livingston,   Sigmund 816 

558  Lockwood,  David  A 370 

19  Loehr.  Karl  C 762 

488  Loehr.  Leon  Lee 255 

302  Loebinstein.  A p.  202 

202  Logan,  S.   F p.  202 

812  Logie,  J.  H 1J9 

813  Long,  Charles  H 81 

177  Loudon,  Agnes  Grace 460 


ILLINOIS    WES  LEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 


207 


Lowentrout ,  Otto  A 716 

Love.   William 461 

Ludlam,  Charles  S 108 

Luke.  Daniel    Derondo 305 

Lyda.  A.  J..^ p.  202 

Lyle.  Edward  Genard 342 

McAfferty.  J.  M 650 

McBain.James  Afflect  Fraser.343 

McCann.  Bert  H 817 

McCartney.  J.   Edwin 520 

McCaslin.  Mark. 256 

McChesney.  S p.  202 

McClanahan.  Archie  A 688 

McClelland.  Robert  E 64 

McClure.John  F 61  1 

McCormick,  Nelson 205 

McCormick.  Prof.  Henry. . .  .  849 

McKay.  Robert 140 

McCoy,  Lydia 404 

McCoy.  Alice 405 

McCoy.  James  H 632 

McCoy.  Albert  G 872 

McCracken.  George   H 56 

McCrae.  David  Lemont 257 

McCulloch,  Laura 306 

McElroy,  William  Newton.p.  202 

McDaniel,  Robert  F 521 

McDonald.  Duncan 901 

McKee.  James  Milford 562 

McKennan,  Frank  B 743 

McLean,  John 885 

McMahan,  William  L 406 

McMasters.  Curtis 631 

McMurray,  William  P 592 

McNaught,  Joseph 141 

McNaughton,  James 878 


McNulta,  Robert  P 717 

McNutt.  Patterson p.  202 

McVety,  Thomas  Wilson. . .  .908 

Macdonald,  Norman 896 

Macintyre.  Daniel   C 877 

Macintyre.  T.  M 875 

Mabry,  William   D 462 

Magin.  Louis 563 

Malcom.  J.  Finley 463 

Mansfield.  Charles  F 706 

Marsh.  Clinton  B 407 

Marsh.  Walworth  N 564 

Marquis.    William    S 125 

Marquis,    Laura  Betta 204 

Martin,  George  A 72 

Martin.  George  W 591 

Martin,   J.  H 23 

Marvin. George  Wesley 408 

Mason,  Allen  C 110 

Matheny,  Martha 565 

May,  Marion,  Jr 742 

Mayer,  Frederick 566 

Maxwell,  David  A 897 

Mecham,   Elmer  E 522 

Meixsell,  George  P 109 

Melvin,  Sylvester 159 

Merrill,  William   B  567 

Merrill,   Frank  Warren 909 

Merritt,  John  H 142 

Methvin.  John  Jasper 258 

Metz.  William  S 612 

Meyer,  F,  W.  A 489 

Mihill.  D.    M 3^4 

Miles,  David  Thomas 226 

Millikin.  James  S 11 

Miller,  Egbert  L p.  202 


Miller,  Wave 568 

Miller,  James  M 143 

Miller.  John  L 274 

Miller.   Daniel   C 730 

Miller.  George  B 633 

Miller.  James  B 836 

Miller.  William  L 791 

Mills.  Job  Smith 464 

Mills,  William  Wirt 345 

Minard,  Charles  Wellington  .  24  1 

Minear,  Anza   Letta 193 

Minier,  Thomas 634 

Minier.  Philip  N p.  202 

Mitchell,  Edward    B  777 

Mitchell.  Edwin  L. 778 

Mitchell.    Walter 434 

Moles,  John  Wesley 523 

Mooneyham.  Robert  A 792 

Montague.  William   L 915 

Montgomery.  James 886 

Montgomery,   Henry p.  202 

Moore,  Robert  E 48 

Moore,  John   95 

Moore,  Elizabeth  M 178 

Moore,  James  A  887 

Moore.  Charles  Augustus. . .  .490 

Moore.  William 818 

Morey,  Clayton   L 491 

Morrasy.  Frank  W 731 

Morris.  Augustine  Y Ill 

Morrison.  Albert  Alexander.  .307 

Morrissey,  John  J 635 

Morse.  Irene  May 492 

Motter,  John  Asbury 1 60 

Moulsdale,  Charles  Gilbert.. 493 
Mueller,  Francis,  Jr 179 


Mulkey.  Clement   L.V 798 

Munsell,  Francis  E 73 

Munsell,  Martha  A 160 

Murray.   Henry 744 

Muse.  William    Fee 227 

Myers.  Martha  Josephine.    ■  409 

Nate.  Joseph  Cookman  410 

New,  Ella 308 

Newman,  John   M 689 

Newkirk.  George  R 494 

Nicholson.  Thomas 411 

Noll.  William  Clayton 495 

Norris,  Myron   Lee 371 

Northrup,  James  A -65 

Oaks.  Lannes    P 745 

Oikawa.  Tsunekichi 779 

Ollis.  William 613 

Oliver.    Add 793 

Oiler.  Amos 651 

Orebaugh .  David 746 

Orme,  Thomas  Hughes.  •  .p.  202 

Orr,  James  Riggs 569 

Orr,  Thomas  Edwin 496 

Osawa,  Yeizo 747 

Osborn.  Richard 58! 

Owen.  Wesley 819 

Palmer.  Rev.  George  R.  •  .p.  202 

Palmer.  John  M p.  202 

Pancake.  Joseph  F 15 

Park.  William   G 524 

Parkhust.  Frederick  S 570 

Parkinson.  Charles  W  161 

Parmenter,  Charles  Sylvester. 228 

Parr,  Franklin  J 718 

Patterson.  Robert  W 194 

Patton,  Robert  Howard  ....  229 


203 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH  AND  ALUMNI  RECORD. 


Patton.  Margaret 275 

Paul.  Edward  William 163 

Paul.  Joshua  Hughes 465 

Peacock.  Sarah 412 

Peck.  George  W p.  202 

Peck.  Alva  B 435 

Perfect.  Thomas   H.  S 

Perrin.  Oliver  J 259 

Perrin.  Mrs.  Harriet  Towle..497 

Perrin.  John  William 309 

Phillips.  Abram  L 680 

Phillips.  J.  J p.  202 

Phillips.  Isaac  N p.  202 

Pike.  Randolph  A 582 

Pitts.  John  J 673 

Pilcher.  James  E 879 

Pillsbury.   Maud 276 

Poe.  Laura  ! 525 

Pogue,  John  R 708 

Pollock.  Nellie 413 

Pollock.  Thomas  L 837 

Porter.  Robert  B 66 

Porter.  Walker  G 748 

Potter.   Br;5dford  S 856 

Potter.  Ralph  F 414 

Potter.  Arthur  William 436 

Powell.  John  Wesley 847 

Powell,  Herbert 260 

Powles.  George  A 372 

Power.  John  J 415 

Presby.  Joseph  Waite 498 

Priest.  John  W 526 

Probasco.  Lewis  B 763 

Probasco.  J.  William 527 

Procunier.  Charles  Ault 528 

Puiliam.  James  M  614 


Pumphrey,  William   H 162 

*Pusey.Wm.  W.  (omitted)p.  210 

Putnam.  William  Henry 898 

Quinn.  James 277 

Radebaugh,  William 918 

Randell.  John  Walter 674 

Randle.  George  W 529 

Rayburn.  Calvin 126 

Rawlins.   B.  F p.  202 

Ready, John  M 615 

Regan.  John  F 820 

Redman.    Elmer  S 466 

Read,  Frank  C 181 

Reed,  Newton  B 584 

Reid.  Silas  H 764 

Reeves,  Harry  G 24 

Reute^  William  Charles. ..  .499 

Rich.  Arthur  William 571 

Richardson.  Eben  A 675 

Richmond.  John  Charles.  .  .310 

Ricks,  Manford  J 182 

Ricketts,    B.  Merrill 416 

Riggs.  Lewis  Warner 311 

Rigg.  Norton   M 572 

Rishel.  Austin  C 530 

Risley.  Theodore 719 

Richer,  Charles  E 838 

*Robbins,   Henry    E.    (omit- 
ted)  p. 210 

Roberts.  George  Henry 437 

Robinson.  Thomas  L 794 

Robinson,  J.  H 148 

Roebling,  John  Augustus  —  902 

Roe,  E.  R p.  202 

Rogers,  Mary  B 127 

Rogers,  Henry   H 262 


Rogers,  Lewis  L 845 

Rohrer,  Alvin  Fletcher 373 

Rollins.  Herbert  Mitchell. ...  1  64 

Rood,  Edward  B 699 

Rose,   Edwin 467 

Ross,  Kate  B 96 

Round.  May 112 

Rowell,  Frank  T 616 

Ruby.  William  Spencer 218 

Russell,  Rolland  Augustine.  .312 

Russell,  George  Clifton 880 

Rutledge,  William  N 25 

Ryan,  Albert  William 861 

Ryan,  Albert  Winfield 468 

Ryan, William  H 500 

Ryburn.  Belle 165 

Ryburn,  Jennie  May 195 

Sageser,  Joseph  Smiley 197 

Sahler,    Henry  A 374 

Salton.  George  Fletcher 501 

Sammon,  Deaghlin  G 839 

.Sanford,  Amelia  E p.  202 

Sargent,  James p.  202 

Sargent,  John  H 749 

Sa'.inier,  Andrew  J.  C 375 

Savitz,  Jerohn  J 502 

Scanlan,  William  Richard- .  469 

Scanlan,  Wilber   S 700 

Schnepp,  John  H 750 

Scheil.  Edwin  A 910 

Schuett.  Rudolph 573 

Schwer,  Charles 652 

Scott.  AdolphusG 49 

Scott,  John  E 82 

Scott,  John  Harden  196 

Scrimger,  George  E 97 


Sedore,  William  M 31 

Seward,  Llewilyn 83 

Shay,  John   H 625 

Shay,  Maretta 626 

Shaw.  James  H 278 

Shelland,  J.  0 98 

Short,  William  Fletcher 2 

Shryock,  Henry  William 431 

Shur,  Hannah  I 74 

Sikes,  George  W 280 

Sikes,Orilla 279 

Sikes.  John  H 721 

Silberstein.  Julius 574 

Siliiman,   Oscar 676 

Simmons,  Thomas  Harvey. -230 

Simpson.  Benjamin  F 666 

Simpson.  William   H 470 

Sinclair,  Samuel  Bower 281 

Skinner,  David  S p.  202 

Slack,  Hiram  W  575 

Sloan,  Charles  Norton 242 

Smedlev.  Warren  Fred 576 

Smith,  Rev.  Philander...  p.  202 

Smith,  Parmenis 57 

Smith.  Jesse p.  202 

Smith,  Joseph  Alexander. ...  1  1 3 

Smith,  Wlliam   Albert 114 

Smith,  Francis  M 313 

Smith,  Sheiton  L.,  Jr 707 

Smith,  J    Patterson 600 

Smith,  Anna  Pearl 532 

Smith,  Homer  J 208 

Smyth,  William  John 850 

Snelling,  George 601 

Snoke,  David  H 376 

Snowdon,  John  Thomas ....  533 


LLINOIS    WESLEY  AN  UNIVERSITY. 


209 


Snyder,  Clarence  E 577 

Snyder,  Kimball  P 627 

Spear,  Monroe  Willis 346 

Spencer,  Henry  D 593 

Spencer,  John  O 347 

Spilier,  Oscar  Calvin  Henry. 578 
♦Solomon.  J.W.  (omitted)p.  210 

Sowerby,  Albert  T 503 

Stahl,  Samuel  D 681 

Staley.  Amos  Glide 534 

Stapleton,  John 628 

Staymate,  Byron  F 128 

St.  Clair,  Peter p.  202 

Sterry.  Mary  E 535 

Sterling. Thomas 115 

Sterling,  Belle 144 

Sterling,  John  Allen 206 

Stephenson,  Christopher  W. -617 
Stevens,  Rev.  Bishop  P.  F.p-202 

Stickle,  Arthur  Luther 207 

Stockton,  Alfred  A 858 

Stoker,  James  L 636 

Stokes,  Benjamin  F 653 

Stone,  Henry  Orlando .263 

Straight,  Dora  Philena 231 

Straight,  Leonard  Arby 314 

Stratton,  Frederick  Eugene.  -903 

Strawn.  Alfred  T 765 

Strickland,  Charles  Orlando. .  183 
Strongman,  William  Arthur. .863 

Stuart.  John 862 

Sudduth ,   Margaret 1 98 

Sudduth,  William  Xavier. . .  .377 

Sudduth,  John  W 766 

Super.  Charles  W 843 

Sutherland.    Edward  W 602 


Swearingen,  Otho  D 720 

Sweet,  Benjamin  A 536 

Symmonds,  William 282 

Tanaka,  Kashijiro 751 

Tait,  Alexander 288 

Taylor.   Jam.es  B 50 

Taylor,  William 471 

Taylor.  Albert  Wilber 438 

Taylor,  David 348 

Tear,  John  Henry 472 

Temple.  Carey 32 

Thomas.  Richard  S 379 

Thomson.  A.  H p.  202 

Thomson.  Thomas  G 315 

Thompson,  George  John  A-  -888 
Thompson,  George  Samuel.. 378 

Thompson,  George  K 840 

Thompson.  Joseph  J 767 

Thompson.  John  M 637 

Thompson.  Hubert  J 841 

Thorpe,  Francis    Newton.  ••  219 

Thwing.  Edward  Payson 857 

Tilley,  William    Edward 889 

Tilton,  George  R 682 

Tipton,  Harry  V 667 

Tinsley,  Charles p.  202 

Tobey,  Chelius  Franklin 184 

Toles,  Smith  W 380 

Tom.kins,   Squire 618 

Trach.  George  T 504 

Trammell.  George  W 795 

Tucker.  William  Bowman...4I7 

Underwood.  Sara  J 243 

Vale,  I.    Edwin 619 

Vancil.  Burke 732 

Van  Deventer.  RoUand 722 


Van  Ingen.  Bart   C 579 

Vanneman.   Albert  W 284 

Van  Pelt,  Samuel I  16 

Van  Pelt.  Mary  Lenore 199 

Van  Pelt.  John  Robert 220 

Van  Pelt.  Sara  E 283 

Van  Petten  Edwin  Malaney..264 

Van  Petten.  Bina 316 

Van  Sant.  Charles  Franklin.  .505 

VanSlyke.  E 537 

Van  Wie.  Charles  Benjamin. 538 

Van  Winkle.  Micajah 51 

Vasey.  Lucius 67 

Vasey.  George p.  202 

Vernon.  Horace  Kelley.-.p.  202 

Vogel.  George  G p.  202 

Waddell.  Robert  H 317 

Wade.  Richard  A 594 

Wagoner.  Lewis  A 52 

Wakefield,  James  Alexander.  166 

Walford.  Anthony 318 

Walker.  Isaac  D 585 

Walkley.  Albert 99 

Wallace.  D.A p.  202 

Want,  Nannie  M 439 

Wardl°,  James   F 418 

Ware, Samuel  M 185 

Ware.  Edward  Newell 319 

Warfield.  James  W 16 

Warlow.  George   L 595 

Warner.  Peter 4 

Warner.  William  Arthur ....  440 

Washburne. William  H 540 

Wasmuth.  Hattie  May 441 

Watson,  Altha  J 321 

Watson.    Laura 320 


Watson.   Harvey  Sherman.  .419 

Way  man.  John p.  202 

Webster.  Thomas p.  202 

Wehrman.  Charles 864 

Weir,  Samuel 904 

Welch.  R.  B 145 

Welch.  John  D 709 

Weldon,  Lincoln  H 638 

Weldon.  Hon.  Lawrence,  .p.  202 

Weld.  Cynthia  W p.  202 

Welles.  Frank  Edwin 285 

Wells,  Cornelia  B 349 

Welty,Sain 209 

Wertz,  Charles  F 596 

Wetzel,  George  Theily 420 

Wheeler.  Frank  W 381 

Wheeler.  D.  E p.  202 

Whiting.  Henry  C 130 

White.  Charles  Gershom  .  .  .905 

White.  Mrs.  Hannah  L 506 

Whitlock.  Elias  D p.  202 

Whitmer.  Leroy  G 822 

Whitmore.  William  Wallace539 

Whitney.  Henry  C 846 

Whorrell.  Charles  W 473 

Wiedemann,  Charles  W.  .  .  .768 

Wight,  John  Fletcher 265 

Wilbur.  C.  F p.  202 

Wilcox.  Frank  T 350 

Wilcox.  Myron  Chesterfield. 287 

Wilder.  William  H 84 

Wiley.  Thomas  R 69 

Wilkinson.  James    Edward.  .890 
Williams,  Robert  E..  Jr.  .  .  .701 

Williams.  Marshall  W 586 

Williams.  Richard  Edward.  .351 


210 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  AND.  ALUMNI  RECORD. 


Wiiiiamson.  William 54 1 

Willey.  John    Heston 286 

Willis.  Richard   Henry 919 

Willis.  John  G 752 

Willis.  Jay  Vincent 68 

Wills.  Charles  1 780 

Wills.  James  Almedy 1 67 

Wilson.  Andrew  Stickle.  ...    40 
Wilson.  William  Shamburg.    75 


Wilson.  James  Oliver 129 

Wilson.  Charles  Crum 442 

Wilson.  Oscar '.  .  .  382 

Wilson.  W.  J 580 

Wilson.  George  M 796 

Wilson.  D p.  202 

Wilson.  D     P p.  202 

Winter.  John  F 3'1 

Wogan.  Henry  Francis 421 


Woodworth.    Bert 289 

*Wood.AlpheusH.(omit'd)p.  210 

Wood.  Preston.  Jr 443 

Wood. -Henry  Willis 383 

Wood.  Alien  W 821 

Wood.  J.  P p.  202 

Wright,  Rev.G.  W.  T  .  .  .  .  p.  202 

Wright.  David  L 797 

Wyatt.  Edwin  H 26 


Yardley.  Charles 444 

Yocum.  Luella. 232 

Young.  William  D.  H 20 

Young.  Hattie  Ella 290 

Young.  Stellula  Deborah..  ..322 

Young,    Frank 603 

Young.  Miles  K 733 

Zerbee.   Alvin  Sylvester.  .  .  .848 
Zimmerman.  Charles  B.  .  .  .753 


Addenda. 


IThese  names  were  omitted  by  error  from  the  class  lists.) 


922.  William  W.  Pusey.  B.  S  .  1870.     Odell.  Illinois. 

Lawyer:  farmer. 

923.  Peter  R.  Erling.  ^h.  B..  1883.     Chicago.  Illinois. 

924.  Thomas  Griffith.  Ph.  B..  1883.     Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

Ph.  D.:  clergyman. 

925.  Alpheus  Hamilton  Wood.  ( B   A..  Battle  Creek),  M.  A.     Lamar, 

Missouri. 


926.  John  Roe  Battisby,  Ph,  B..  1885.   M,  A.     Chatham.  Ontario. 

Clergyman, 

927,  David  Johnstone  Caswell,  Ph.  B..  1888.    Brantford,  Ontario. 

Clergyman. 

928.  Henry  Edwin   Robbins,  M,  A.  (on  examination).  Biology.  1893 

Lyons,  Iowa, 

929,  John  Solomon,  B.  A,,  1895.      Deer  Creek,  Illinois. 

Teacher. 


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211 


General  Index. 


1.  Addenda 210 

2.  Alumni,  Alphabetical  Index  of 163-200 

3.  Alumni  Association 161 

4.  Alumni  Record •. 163 

5.  Alumni  of  the  Law  School .• 190 

6.  Board  of  Instruction ; 156-158 

7.  Board  of  Instruction  at  the  present  time 159-160 

8.  Corporation:  ' 

(1)  Members 153 

(2)  Officers •. 154 

(3)  Present  Corporation J  55 

9.  Degrees  given  on  Examination 197-200 

10.  Degrees,  honorary,  pro  merito  and  ad  eundem  gradum 201-202 

1 1.  Founders : 

( 1 )  Brief  sketches  of 42-82 

(2)  Object  of 6-7 


12,  Graduates,  brief  sketches  of Ill- 152 

13,  History  of  the  Corporation: 

(1)  Charter 9-12 

(2)  President  Munsell '. 13-16 

(3)  President  Fallows 17 

(4)  President  Adams 18-19 

<5|     Laboratories  and  Museum 21-28 

(6)     Observatory  and  Libraries 31-32 

<7)     Wilder  Reading  Room  and  Wesleyan  Lecture  Course 33-34 

(8)  Admission  of  Ladies  and  Woman's  Educational  Association.  .  35 

(9)  College  of  Law 38 

(10)  Non-Resident  and  Graduate  Department 38 

(11)  Preparatory   Department 39 

( 12)  The  College  Paper  and  University  Press- 41 

1 4,  Preface 2 


llftjor  ?owoll,   Chair  of  Pioldgy.       End  rent  Licicntict, 

Prcf,  Walte,   now    Professor  of  ?JOdern  Unnc^iugGBj  TTniverslty  of  Michlsar, 

Trrfo-'Tv,      TVi>!r»"!      rov;  c^r^r  of  Or>c1:.   T?53le-'-;-tn  Urireroity,   ?^iddletowr.. 

rrcf.   C^lJ'A'oll.    new  chs-ir  of  Er.slish,   re?uv<w, 

?rof.   Steele,   vjovf  chair  of  Lr.tin  VandorMlt  T^rrversity. 

T^iT  r ,    ■'rcqx^es.    once  roted  rJreeT.   schoicj*. 


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Judge  Cwon  T.  Rceve«.   A/'.,    LL.D.     A.^'Chio  ^osl9yn.n  TTnivorsity  . 

Frcndnent  Iz^jer  in  Plooniifi;ton  slrce  1855.    Cfrce 

1891  Doan  of  the  Law  Echccl.         A  irian  of   erainent 
le^al  aMllty, 


Judge  r.Gii^or     "'.   Perjardn,  A.''.,    LI..D..   "Profossor  Feal  Property  :ir.d 

CoriRtitTticnal  Law.     A.M.    froi^i  Arr.horst .      T.T.,?.    T:i''lr.ols 
TTeslGyan,        for  yerrs  prominer.t  attorney  Plocrdncton, 
Tl'"ino:3s.  Ti  rst  Eean     of  Lew  School  Tllincns  Tesleyan, 

Connected  with  school  as  Dean  end  teacher     thirty-soven 
ye?.rs,         AxJthor  of  "Principles  of  Contracts",    "Principles 
of  Siilos".     A  rr.n  of  r^reat  legal  ah'lity. 

Chtjrles  L.    Cf-fen.  A;B.,  A.'*.    fKcrvara)    .       Tlr.j^lnents,   Gorrorot  ens  end 
and  Dar.e.£0s.  Pr'rrlncnt  rvttcrney  for  tv/erty-fnve 

years .   Blocrrington,  Illinois. 

Roland  A.  R-^-ssell.   A.F.,   LL.P.  IlJ.incis  Feeleyf-n.  Criminal  Law 

Wills  and  Prcbato  Practicd,        For  several  tonriS  County 
Judge  "cLoan  County,         Recentlijr  appainted  s^'T'^rintendent 
F.ef omaton''  at  Pontiac. 

John  J:;unes  "orrisse^',    LT,,??,         Agency,   ?:  rtnerKhip  and  Insurance. 
Prcnlnent  lr.'r;,'-er  urd  teacher  of  law, 

^.   B.    Leach,  A.E..    LL.P.         Personcl  Prorerty,   Suretyship.    Sales  and 
Eon-efitic  Kels.t:onr.         A."".   T^nnversity  of  Illinois. 

A.    J,   '^e^^jjirig.   P. A.,    LL.B.,  Elementary  Law. 

Hal  }t.   Stone,    LJ..P.       p.    cf  I. Law  School.  Evidences,   Torts. 

Hiirvey  Hart.   A.P.  .   LL.P.        Instn'ctor, School  of   Law. 

Jacoh     P.   Lirdley,  Ar^',   LL.P.  A>Pi   PUt. tmi'*.  Elenentan/  Law 

and  Contracts.  Teacher  for  t'A'e'^ty  yerrs  in  School 

of  L^w,         &.S'j    State  Pniversity  of  Trdiana. 


TROMTTTTTT  ALT!^rHI— CrLI£GE     OT  IJCERAI.  ARTZ, 

TTr  T^TOIS  TOSLEYATT  r>TIVniGTTY. 

Cor.gro'^-^i..^:.  John  A.   c-trrlDr-G 

Bishop  .Tcsdph  ITartzcll 

Thcrcas  A.   Cterlins,    C.   Dakcta,  inoinlDor  State  Const! trtiryrcl  Conver.ticn — 

State  Soniitorj   and  proirlnent  leader. 

Ex-Co verncr  Jo soph  Fifftr 

Lor.    TTerrickj    Blooraington,    TH.j    prordnent   leader   ,    stock   niissr. 

John  F.  Winter.,    fcrnsr  member  Illincis  Legielatvre,    'Consnl  at  Rotterdam 
ur^der  President  Harriccn 

V^illisr  V,   Ccttreil,    Chicago,   Jiidge  of  !\inicipal  Court 

a.   S.   TTilscn,   Gr'.rrx  City,    Ta.    ,   District  .Tirdge. 

Robert  E.   T'oore,   Lincoln,  Meb.     >'3rber  cf  TTebraska  Legislnturu,    i^v^vcruj. 

times  raycr  of  city,    prominent  business  r^n. 

Eilcs  Yci;rc  Lilian,   Ililv/aukee.  Prcn:inent   odx'.c-tcr  and  editor, 

Fredari-cl:  G.   .TackriSn,   ?ft.   Plsastint,   lu.  Prominent  physician  and 

Tn sanity  T^irrert. 

Bavi.l  ?!.   Harris,      3t,   Lovis.  Prominent  sdvcr-;tor  and  editor,   ^n 

the  Prestyj^cri£.n  church, 

E.   X,   Kirkpatrick,   Parma,   Idaho.  Prominent   financier. 

Rev.    J.   C.  "^llscn,    deceaseiJ.        rcrmicr  prominent  paster  in  >Tew  York  City. 

Pjbv.   Frank  Crano,   Chicar^o.     Prominent  rdr.ister.  ] 

T'iliiam  Xavier:    Suddrth.       Graduate  Student  University  of  Fdnnesota.         ^  \ 

Graduate  Phi ladeiphia  Cental  College.       Also  of  Physicians  and^of  TTniver3.\lj 

Sturgeons,   "Mew  York  City.  Seven  years  one  cf  the  editors  cf  the  annual         "- -^ -, -. 

Vany  ether  prominent  ministers,    lavr.'ers  and  educetcrs     might  be  m^enticed/  ( 

A  FEW  CF  CTTR  TTCTT-RESTrE">!T  OUrrj^TES, 

Tr.   Super,    fonr.er  President  of  Chio  ^'nivernity. 

Rev.    Thomj-s  Fichclson,    Tec.   poard  of  Educ.-^tion,  TTew  York. 

Dr.   Caru^el  T7ier,   College  Presi:!ent, 

Lr.   T.   ?^'cTntyro,   Vsr^'-  prcmdnent   educator,    Toronto  ,    Can. 

Rev.    George  Daniel,   C^e  cf  the  able  preachers  cf  Canadi&n  Methodism.. 

J.   H     .   Ttentgom:er5'.    professor  cf  Physics  and  Chemistry,  Allegheny  Coiiego.  j 

John  Tssley  Powell,   y..A.,   TlTinris  Tesleyan,   1877,     Ph.D.  TTriversity  cf  j 

Heidelberg,   18c6i   LL.D.,  Harvard,   1386.  Member  cf  TTational  Academy  cf  j 

Science.       President   of  "Anthrcfolcgical  Society,  "^/ashin^ton.     Head  cf  j 

'the   fire-!:   G^:';rlo<:'ico.l  Cvrvsv  of  T',3,        Yo+ed  Cci^ntLot,  ; 


TTor-  ;.„:,■»  .V,,r+     r*,   ,1->,v<f 


(cont5  nued) 


Frajncie  n«   Feattie.     Prominent  clorgynian,    professor  of  ZyatevafA  c: 

Thcclony  for  j'onrs  in  PrcBbyterian  Theolocical  Cor.inan/,  \'illo,  Ky 

rilllan  A,   Ryan.        Prnrrinent   Clnreyrxin  in  r!^isccT,al  Church.      Er.lr.th,   "irn. 
Author, 

Tchn  E+r^'iirt.  rniversity  ?recidont,   lo'.va. 

J'^,    ~,   "uCoy,       One  of  the   loading  v.:sn  and  clercynicn  ir  ^'nited  Preabyteri&n 

church, 

iU   G.    Johnscn.  Pufftily,   >\  v,  PresiJert  of  Ger.inan/,    editor  of 

Ciirront  Hir^tor*/. 

';  :  5S  A.   '^onre.        Collose  prcfe-ssor,   Crcens^orc,  Ala, 

David  A.   ''axwell.        '^ntar^c.  Cupt,    of  Treininc  School  for  Teachers, 

T:illi:ar.  Henry  Putneii:,  TTew  York  City,  Fim-  of  Pottsr  &  Piitnar ,   Puhliahers 

r.   r.   p.ovurd,   Editor  California  Chrfctir.r  Arlvocato,   Sr-.-^iPranciccc,    Calif. 

PresiJer.t   Edvdn  A.    Schell,    frr-.«r  '.•ec^ve  Gccre+u.ry   .    ncv/  Presidert   of 
Iowa  Tesleyan  T'niversit^'-. 

?'illirr:  L,   T'onttgi^e.    Csvcral  years  professor  of  -'odern  Langnagues  in 
Amherst  Col^'.ego. 

i]L*  :((:•: -I- il;  A -Ir  4: '!(;  :|c 

FnKJ.EE  GTTTr.ETJTs 
Vice-President  Adlai  P.   Stevenson;   Plcoiningtor.-    ■"''■'. 
Dr.   Bradford,   president  Epworth  University,   and  Keny  ethers  prominent 
in  all  walks  of  life. 


SOME  or  ^'T  UT  ALTT'^TT. 
rdchard  Cs^omo— .n^d£0  of  i.uvox'ir.i-  Court,   Caattla,  Tac^^. 
VJesl^y  "..   Cwer.-Dis-.rict  .rd  Si^pori- r  Judge,   Tcthnus  of  Tanm^^/ 
'"ecTGc  ?.   aille8re--/ir.siot£ir.t  Atty  Cen. ,   Spr^ncfieia,   "      • 
C^arloD  F.  T^ansfio^d—       " 

Cl-arl03  C.   Crais-     Ha-didatc  for  Euprorce  Judeo,   HUncis. 
rinclow  Evans.    Covnty  .Tudce>   ?oorlr.,   Til. 
Phillip  ^.   Bnrnec—   "  "  Lav-rorce^n  V'o 

T.   T.   Church  --  «  "  Alfido 

Tv.scola 
Blocmirgton 


,T.   T.    chadvdck  - 

r. .  A.  F.ussoll 

Ttorer  Hell 

_  •  "'.    Clark© 

Fred  C.   "'^il'' 

Loe  Ono&l  Brovrn 

r.eed  Croen 

At  oc  filer     -   - 

r .   F .    Z^  a'^_,T.".&.*  8-  - 


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II  n  Danvj.llc 

D8m,   Leader,   Illincis  Legislature 
TtenlDer  Illinois  Sonate 
Jvdge  cf  City  Cr:vrt,   Litchfield 
Ttemher  Illinois  LceislatTsrre,    ''^ --^  -  - 


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CrT  'T'TITP.C  OF  TLM^^TC  TTrTYA^'  FACnJ.'^. 


R.   C.   Gruhnir.,  A.^'.,   Ph.E.  Chair  cf  c' ei  iotry.        A.".  Ari.h«r8t; 

?Y.Z.  ,    -Tohn  HopV.lns. 

mberT-  Fern:sch,  A.B.,  A.M.       Prcfosscr  of  Hrosl^.       A.P.   and  A/j. , 

Chi-    ■Wenleyr-r..  H-ld  chair  of  C-rook 

1^  years  Adriar  Cc  liege,  Adriar,   '-'ich.         Two 
yenrs  rost-sradv-te  work     Leipzig  TTnav-rsi  +  y. 
Ctn died' under  t^rofesscrs     PrugiTfin.   Tinc'iach, 
end  Tiichsm-th.  Cince  1894     Trcfo- 5cr  in  Illincic 

T^eslc.'T.n,   Crreek  and  Cerriin. 

r^,.^,,.. ,,  ",   .v.-.^+in,  A.E.J   A.".   Chic  TeslevExn  T^niversity.      T^.air  of  Lntin. 

1387-P9  TnstriJctor  in  Orr^fili     last  ""laine  Conforence 
Serninory,   Riclceport,   Tte.  lS^'9-1891  Eerf.rtn:ont  cf 

I.titin  and  ^-raek  in  Tilton  S-?riins.ry,   '''^Iton,   TT.TI. 
Chcir  cf  Lr.tin     in  "^asleyfen  Acaderr^y,  TTllTDerhur.,   T.'&sb. 

1891-1899.  18999-1901,    post-srad^.^ate  student 

fit  Johns.  Ho-l;ins.    Latin     ,   Clrcel:  and   Sanscrit. 
Fellow  in  Lr.tin     Johns  Forl.-inc,    1901.         Troin  1901 
to  the  rresont,    chri  r  cf  Latin.   Illincls  rosle^-rn. 

T^en-ilDor'cf  the  Aneilc&n  ^lilologi  cal  AssociaticnsLnd 
Classical  Associate  rn  cf  laddle  TTest  and  South. 

O'^f  rvild,    P.C..  "f^.S.   Feddins  College.  Ch.£iir  cf  '{uthenatics,    sr.c 

Astrcnory.  For  two  yerr-.  Tnstnictcr  in  ^'r+hcT-ci cs3    >^ 

:^nd  Enclish  in  T^rer-ratory  Pep  &rtir.ent',   Heddins 
College.  189  3-19  C  4  Chair  of  T'atherraticr,  Fed  ding 

College   .  Has   done  pcst-criidi^ate  worV.  in 

!''£itheTTiatics  ir  Frdversity  of  Chicago.  1905  to  the 

prerent,    ch?ir  of  '^rther.atics  at  TllincSs  "^esleyan, 

?.C.    Lcnerville,   Th.^.   rc^a-v/   ,   :..-\   Chicago  rniversfty.  ^f  gl"*  ^   . 

Political  Science  one  yecr  in  PeTauw.       1903-05  cht'ir 
of  Oratory  .   T!t.  Fnion  College.  1905-07,    chair 

cf  English  Fi7chanan  College,  re.  1907-09,    chair 

of  English,  x^ehraslca  TTesle^'ar.  1909   choir  cf 

English   ,   Illinois  resleyan.     /«4jXpne  pcst-rr£.duate  wcrl 
at^'F-rvard  TTpiversity.       Alrcst^npleted  his  Fh.D. 

degree  there. Fas  done  rcuch  worl:  as  institute  instructor 
in  Chic;  Pennsylvania  and  Indiana.  Has   dene  ccnsider- 

ahle  nagazine  work  and  '^-^^   :r>>:c  locturing. 

F.   E.  "JTood,   A.B..   ^iiV^A^  '     Chair  of  Flology  11  in.is  -esleyan^^s 

done  r.uch  rost-graduo.te  work     at  Fniversity  of  ^^ichigar, 
also  some  at  Fnivorrity  of  imnris.  Per  past    four 

years  has  hccn  doing  zoolcgioal  work  on  the  Illinois 
Fatural  Fistcrv  Curvey,  making  a  particular  study  of 
fishes  a»d  n.araals  of  the  str-te.         A  hock  en  "I!ar.T,als 
cf  the  "Prairie  Section"  now  hoing  puhlished.     "Professor 
^cod  is  a  linguist  of  no  rr.ean  ahility.  Spent  seven 

years  in  Japan  as  a  teacher  . 


Charle.  I.  Tccert,  A.?.,  A.T^.,   ^Ki,.-  uc  ted  JjJ^^^^^J,;,.    :^-  i 

7chr.8  T^opl-.^ns.         :....,  T^^fversity  of  Hoi 'i'- .   ors-  ^ 

Fcr  twcr.ty  years  "Prcfensor  cf  nor&nce  I^^  ■  '  ni-  ^ 


iv^d 


vcraity  of  Towa.  "^o  yer.rs   chr.5  r  of 

. ::r;;os,  TfendorUlt  T'nivors--ty.  Editor     of 

-3  French  and  aermn  ClasBic*.  Alen 

author  cf  text-toolcs.    r-errr;£n  and  French.  1^Q« 

4o  rrer.ent,    r-  -  rf  -r.nch  end  Hiotcry  ,  TUincio 
TTesleyan, 

r     T      v-^rrev     AB       ATU.G.T,-,        Chair  of  Foliti  cal  Eccnomy,   SocioloCT' 
F.   L.   Fame,..   A.B..   A,.^.    ;;.i,3,,j,y,         a.B.   ^rppr  To^va  University. 

Strdort  at  Garrott  Hhlical  Inntitiite  and  Chicago 
^Tr/rersity  Divinity  Cchcol.  E.T.T^.    from  Bostrn 

T'niversity  Theolosical  Sch-.  1,       AJ^.   resident  work 
Pr,3ton  rn:versity.         Othor  p  -st-sradrste  work  at 
'Poston  and  Chicaso  TT^iversities   ,   alrost   cotapleted 
his  work  for  Ph.D.       ^as  T'rincipal  of  schools  at 
rienv^llo,  T^inn.,   Frofesscr  cf  Biblical  Literatvre 
PhilcscT^hy,    Fainr:0imt  Collese,  Wichita,   Xans.j-liw  . 

years  as  F^stor  in  T/dnncsota.  r.ccently  pvhliohed  ] 

Hv.ck's  "S^-nopais  cf  the  First  Three  Gospels  i^^  En-l:  ?•.-.•      ; 

Arthur  G.   Ctillhamer,   P.£,  A.V.. ,    chair  cf  Physics.  B  ^. .   "^j.]!;:^'^^^^^^       | 

TTesleyan.  A. 1'. ,    Chicaco  T'niversity.         i\lso  Felio./       , 

at  Ch:crro  diversity.  Associate  Professor 

\  Astrc-Ph.vsicD   ,   Chicaco  Pniversity  rnd  as  east  ant  ^t       v 

^  Terkes  r,vr.r.;rvatory.         Has  completed     ull  -'ork     r,         \^ 

thesis   f^r  Ph.D.,   Chic^cc  ^Vdvorsity,  j 

Ira  Pitner.   Household  Eccnrrics.  nrr..lv.te  J^^-^^^"^!;^^?^: " '^;,^!!!:;r^'^*'        \ 

uate  stv.dent,   "teachers  College,   Golvir:hia  Pniversity. 
Tarcht  tv;o  years  in  Levds  Institute,    Chicaiio.  On. 

-ear  s±"i  Domestic  Science,    Tllin':is  l^cmn's  Co..  ego, 
7ackscnv:no,  1009,   Household  Econorracs   ,    Tl mcis  . 

^esleyan.  j 

-     -.   sv^vely,       B.   E.S.   ;   P.  Accts.       Tr  charge  of  Cormercial  Department.  | 

Ctvdent  at  Manchester  College,   Indiana  Hniversaty..  | 

Graduate  of  Rochester  Business  Hniversity,     J^'-'C^;  j 

one  year  in  TTanchcster  College,  two  yer.rs  Catcn  College,  • 

TMnneap'lis,   T'dnn.  1909-   t^ccher  Comr.ercial  studies  | 

Illinois  ''esjeyan.  ; 

Tf^co  T,rH«  T>     Pnrt'^r       A  P.,  A.".  Instructor  in  English  rnd  ^Tirtcn',  • 

uiss  Lyde  r..    horxsr.     a.-'«,  ui,  .,  _     ,  a  w       a  ••(       T'^Ityi'^-'s 

/"-^erT     Tl'';".l?      esls^rn,  A.B.,   A.'...    i-'-in.-s 

-cJieyan.    -^^/^^fe%^ years  instructor     in  English  j 

Illinris  T!:e^ley;^n.  3 

"is.  Tvi,.  ^,   Eean,   P.G,  Instrvictcr  ^:  n  j^atin  and  Hatheratics,   i^^^^f^*  \ 

'  'c-re-duate  of  Illinois  Fe.leyrn   ..    Experience  as  teacher 

in  puhlic   schools,   high   scv^^l.        1^^^  -  r..tr^'ctcr  •, 

Tl'inv-^is  "Weclevan.  .  I 

Hfiss  I^.th  Hemon^-ay.  .       m.tnictcr  in  Elocution  r,nd  Literature.     Extensive  j 

ccurses  in  Literat^^re,   TTorthwestern  Hniversity.  i 

Graduate  of  Craimcck  Schrcl  of  Cratory.   Epeeial  student  ^ 

in  Oratory  and  Literature,   Ch:  cagc._  jTceuni  i-nd  ■ 

Chautauqua  reader  cf  resognized  ahr-^^'t^'.  j 


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